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# Did they actualy call it Betelgeuse
outside of the US?
(I helped save b3ta! Artamnesia, Thu 1 May 2003, 20:35, archived)
# Not
in UK ....dunno bout anywhere else
(ecky, Thu 1 May 2003, 20:38, archived)
# the word is too complicated
for brits
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Thu 1 May 2003, 20:42, archived)
# In the radio play
Of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - they pronounce Betelgeuse as Beetle-Juice
(I helped save b3ta! xian, Thu 1 May 2003, 20:39, archived)
# that's cos
that's how you pronounce it
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Thu 1 May 2003, 20:43, archived)
# I had an astronmy teacher who said
bay-tl-goys
(I helped save b3ta! Artamnesia, Thu 1 May 2003, 20:44, archived)
# i bet he was one of those people
that insists on pronouncing uranus as "urine-us"
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Thu 1 May 2003, 20:46, archived)
# Patrick Moore
pronounced it "Bettulgurz".

He's an authority, so he must be right.
but a bit weird too
(I helped save b3ta! Nearstars, Thu 1 May 2003, 20:53, archived)
# And that's what the movie's called
as well.
(I helped save b3ta! Artamnesia, Thu 1 May 2003, 20:43, archived)