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RE: eeuuw.

On 18 Feb 2003 at 16:58, Bill O'Neill wrote:

> My favorite was when Ben Stein, pre-Ben's Stein's Money, was guesting on
> Friends and was playing a college professor (very staid) teaching about
> the solar system and planets.  The hecklers in the class kept asking him
> questions where his answer needed to be, "...that would be Uranus (with
> emphasis on the last syllable)" followed by well-timed giggles.

I think you mean the second syllable.

After a NASA flyby of Uranus, Johnny Carson noted that all the NASA people were 
pronouncing it with emphasis on the first syllable.  Of course, he remarked, "They couldn't 
say they found rings around Uranus!" (emphasis on the second syllable).

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