But pretty much everyone else in the English-speaking world does indeed pronounce it your-anus.
Let’s keep my anus out of it!
Is that why they call it "ass"tronomy?
You’re obviously not having the right kinds of conversations then.
Peter: Oh that was great! Hey, next time let’s get Meg to be Boss Hog and Chris can be Anus.
Brian: Enos.
Peter: What’d I say?
Brian: Anus.
Peter: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
You were obviously never a ten year old boy in middle America.
I’m sure “anus” comes up more often than “Uranus” when averaging nation-wide conversations.
Well, exactly if you come from a region that pronounces “your” “yer” (I pronounce it “yore”), but yeah, close enough.
Given the astronomical (sorry) number of synonyms for one’s anal opening, have you actually heard anyone other than a doctor say “anus” in a conversation?
Huh huh. Huh. You said “butt.”
Well, no. Can’t say I was.
Urine Us, you say? Are you R. Kelly?
Um… yes? All the time? Hell I hear it used instead of “ass” because it sounds funny to be clinincal. “Stop being such an anus!” etc.
I’m kind of surprised to hear the word referred to as obscure or little-used, actually. I hear it all the time.
I don’t get it. In any speech except the most exaggeratedly careful, the latter sounds exactly like “your anus” to me. /j@r ein@s/ or thereabouts. It’s possible they’re different in British English or something, but of the two common pronunciations for the name of the planet, in my dialect and most American dialects, one of them is completely indistinguishable from “your anus”.
If you talk about the planet a lot, then maybe you can confirm something for me. Is it true that soon they are going to start digging to find diamonds in Uranus?
(giggle)
Really? Somehow that explains so much about California.
What does it resemble when Schwarzenegger says it?
When I saw this in the paper yesterday I actually laughed out loud. Then I cut it out and taped it to my computer. I really wanted to share it with someone, but I was kind of embarassed to be getting such a kick out of something so juvenile. I can’t remember the last time I heard a Uranus joke, so it was like hearing it for the first time. Granted, it it’s not the height of hilarity by any means, but I can’t believe someone has actually thought about it long enough to form a negative opinion.
Must be either an age thing (I’m in my 40s) or a location thing (I’ve lived in Colorado, California, and Montana).
I can’t recall ever hearing the word “anus” in spoken English unless it was being used by a medical or law-enforcement professional, or by a biologist. Certainly not in casual use.
I hear all of the synonyms, like sphincter, a**hole, butthole, “where the sun don’t shine,” and so forth; but never anus.
The Black Speech of Mordor.
Dunno. I’m in my mid 30s, grew up in Arizona, have lived in DC and GA. It would never occur to me that the word “anus” was in any way uncommon.
Well, the only popular alternative pronunciation would sound exactly like “Urine-us”, which isn’t really an improvement.