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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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[–] Uriel238@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

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).