is anyone else just learning now that Betelgeuse is pronounced like "Beetlejuice"? hazel 🤷🏻♀️🏳️🌈 ( @iamhazel@beehaw.org ) Space • 1 year ago message-square18arrow-up128
arrow-up128message-squareis anyone else just learning now that Betelgeuse is pronounced like "Beetlejuice"? hazel 🤷🏻♀️🏳️🌈 ( @iamhazel@beehaw.org ) Space • 1 year ago message-square18
minus-square Faceman🇦🇺 ( @Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ) linkfedilink9•edit-21 year agocolloquially it might be beetlejuice, but traditionally it’s more like betelgyse or betelgoosa
minus-square kristian ( @kristian@lemmy.astheriver.art ) linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-21 year ago like betelgyse Yeah I remember Patrick Moore always pronouncing it like that (with a hard g). Although Wikipedia suggests that the name originally comes from the Arabic for Orion, al-Jauzā’, so the colloquial pronunciation is probably more correct.
minus-square hazel 🤷🏻♀️🏳️🌈 ( @iamhazel@beehaw.org ) OPlinkfedilink1•1 year agoOkay well that’s reassuring as that’s how I was pronouncing it in my head!
colloquially it might be beetlejuice, but traditionally it’s more like betelgyse or betelgoosa
Yeah I remember Patrick Moore always pronouncing it like that (with a hard g).
Although Wikipedia suggests that the name originally comes from the Arabic for Orion, al-Jauzā’, so the colloquial pronunciation is probably more correct.
Okay well that’s reassuring as that’s how I was pronouncing it in my head!