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in Arabic (and a bunch of other languages I'm sure) it's pronounced: Oranos, I don't understand why the U in Uranus is not pronounced like the U in Ultra.


Cuz in Greek (my mother language), we pronounce "Ουρανός" as "Ouranos".


> ”Our

Good to know, I guess...


A shot in the dark but I think there’s a lot of “ult”s in English but not many “ura”s

Uranium and Urine


In Russian it's simply "Ooran".




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