Fun with pronunciation
From online photo guru Ken Rockwell:
Can you see it? Can you see the black pip just on the right side of the point-spread of the bright dot? The dot is the evening star and planet Uranus, pronounced “your anus.” (Some humorless science teachers tired of hearing the joke about the starship Enterprise being like toilet paper because it flew around Uranus looking for Klingons, and these dull sorts now try to teach kids to mispronounce Uranus as “urine us,” which is still pretty funny.)
Yes, it is still pretty funny.
He may be an online-photography guru, but I don’t think I buy his amateur astronomy credentials. That seems really unlikely to be Uranus, in any pronunciation. Much more likely to be Venus or Jupiter, both of which have been low in the west in the evenings lately. With some additional geeky effort, I could probably figure out which one of the two it is (I’m guessing Venus), but I realize that would lay me open to charges of being a funny-planet-pronunciation party pooper, so I’ll refrain.