Originally Posted by dteowner
Bah, it was always yer-AY-nus until the ivory tower figured out the kids were laughing at them. Insert Beavis and Butthead laugh here. Suddenly, the intelligencia started saying YER-uh-nus. Go figure.

Which proves the superiority of Norwegian compared to English, since there's no double meaning no matter how you pronounce the name. Hah!

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pibbur who says Aluminium. And Natrium. And Kalium. And a lot of other things.