Pluto...

[Bryan K]

That's the new pronunciation to discourage anus jokes, when I was a kid it was your-anus or nothing!

According to Mirian-Webster it's either your-anus or urine-us, the IAU is certainly not a definitive authority on the pronunciation of words so I will defer to the ones who are, your-anus it is!

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2009/1806.html



Yeah I've been circling around and around that one like floater in a ceramic bowl of some kind but it's just not going through for me.

Urine-us is correct when referring to the planet. Ask literally any planetary scientist alive today. Merriam really doesn’t have a say when it comes to the names of astronomical objects. The IAU has absolute authority there.

Don’t test them, or else they’ll demote a planet you love.

 

[D196]

So many sad people who don’t know how to pronounce Uranus properly...

It’s “yur-in-us”. Ask the IAU.

On topic, last time I flew out that way, Pluto was still wrong. In fairness, we only have clear images of half of Pluto, since New Horizons didn’t stick around for a full rotation.

So let me get this straight, my options are:

Your Anus
You're In Us

Hmmm....