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is anyone else just learning now that Betelgeuse is pronounced like "Beetlejuice"? (beehaw.org)
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Not going to describe how I would've tried to pronounce it...

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[-] aprilfollies@feddit.online 1 points 2 years ago

It’s even more fun to look up the origins of the name - “hand/arm of the central one”. E.g. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Betelgeuse

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