hazel 🤷🏻♀️🏳️🌈@beehaw.org to Space@beehaw.org · 2 years agois anyone else just learning now that Betelgeuse is pronounced like "Beetlejuice"?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up115arrow-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🇦🇺linkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-22 years agocolloquially it might be beetlejuice, but traditionally it’s more like betelgyse or betelgoosa
minus-squarekristian@lemmy.astheriver.artlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 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 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.