only heard Uranus with the stress on the second syllable for years
I know I've mentioned this before but it wasn't in the referenced thread so y'all get to read it again:
Yur AY nus was pretty much the standard pronunciation, at least among the public, until rings were discovered around it. I always imagined Uncle Walter giving a glance over his copy for the evening news and thinking, "I am *not saying, 'ring around your anus!'" The pronunciation changed at that very instant and has only now begun to show any signs of changing back.
Note: for the youngsters in the crowd, this was during the height of an ad campaign for a laundry detergent that proclaimed the ability to get rid of that horrid 'ring around the collar'.
