[HPforGrownups] Re: Pronunciation

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 52580

On 20 Feb 2003 at 6:10, tesseract197 jayemelle at earthl wrote:

> Black's first name isn't supposed to be pronounced "serious"?  Huh--I 
> had no idea.  That's how the woman on the Scholastic website says it 
> (but see below for more of my thoughts on her).  Could someone please 
> tell me how it should be pronounced?  I knew it was the name of a 
> star, but I thought the star was also pronounced "serious."  Way to 
> go, Astronomy 110!

Actually, the 'official' pronunciation is very close to 'serious'.

http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/pronunciation_guide.html is a pronunciation 
guide with wav files for some objects including the star Sirius.

A lot of astronomers pronounce it with two short I sounds, but that is not considered 
standard. It's a name that goes back so far in time, nobody can realistically say how it 
was meant to be said.





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