Not going to describe how I would’ve tried to pronounce it…

  • Neotecha (She/her)@beehaw.org
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    When I read Hitchhiker’s Guide, I pronounced it b’tell-jew-EEss

    There’s a thought that:

    Never make fun of people for mispronouncing a word. It means they learned it by reading

    Best I understand, this is a quote without a known attribution

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      1 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.

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    My dad was an astronomer, and as a toddler I thought it was the funniest name for a star. Then the movie came out and I was bugged that they misspelled the name for the promotional posters (but not in the movie itself).

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    But only in English. In German though… it’s very strangely pronounced. Beite-zeus (but the z is soft)