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-up5·edit-21 year agocolloquially it might be beetlejuice, but traditionally it’s more like betelgyse or betelgoosa
minus-squarekristian@lemmy.astheriver.artlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 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.
colloquially it might be beetlejuice, but traditionally it’s more like betelgyse or betelgoosa
Although Wikipedia suggests that the name originally comes from the Arabic for Orion, al-Jauzā’, so the colloquial pronunciation is probably more correct.