hazel 🤷🏻♀️🏳️🌈@beehaw.org to Space@beehaw.org · 1 year agois anyone else just learning now that Betelgeuse is pronounced like "Beetlejuice"?message-squaremessage-square7fedilinkarrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFaceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 year agocolloquially it might be beetlejuice, but traditionally it’s more like betelgyse or betelgoosa
minus-squarekristian@lemmy.astheriver.artlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·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.
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.