hazel 🤷🏻♀️🏳️🌈@beehaw.org to Space@beehaw.org · 2 years agois anyone else just learning now that Betelgeuse is pronounced like "Beetlejuice"?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squareis anyone else just learning now that Betelgeuse is pronounced like "Beetlejuice"?hazel 🤷🏻♀️🏳️🌈@beehaw.org to Space@beehaw.org · 2 years agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFaceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agocolloquially it might be beetlejuice, but traditionally it’s more like betelgyse,
minus-squarekristian@lemmy.astheriver.artlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years 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.
colloquially it might be beetlejuice, but traditionally it’s more like betelgyse,
Although Wikipedia suggests that the name originally comes from the Arabic for Orion, al-Jauzā’, so the colloquial pronunciation is probably more correct.