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#Are the pronunciations in italics and brackets to the right of each word the correct pronunciations, or the mis-pronunciations?  This isn't clear from the text.  Ideally, the article would state first the `correct' pronunciation, followed by a list of mis-pronunciations with indications as to their likely regions (because a lot of the words in the list seem, to me, to be mispronounced only in certain parts of the world, rather than by all Anglophones.  In fact, at the risk o(contracted; show full)good candidate to be content at Wiktionary without making any implications (real or imagined) that the content does not belong at Wikipedia. I can't really reply to any of your other points because it's not clear to me what the difference between "triviality" and a "lack of encyclopedicity" is. Also, I'm curious which entries you believe lack "encyclopedic context" and are simply "idiomatic pronunciations". [[User:Nohat|Nohat]] 20:36, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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== Uranus ==

By what standard is "urinous" a "nonexistant adjective"? It occurs in several dictionaries (cf. www.dictionary.com). It is, however, less familiar than the words "your" and "anus", so I find the second part of the following entry hard to believe without a compelling cite to back it up.

"Most dictionaries list both (1) and (2). (1) is historically the older pronunciation and reflects the first-syllable stress of the original Latin word. It is the only pronunciation given by K&K, and the first pronunciation given by LPD. (2) began as a form of taboo avoidance because (1) sounds like the nonexistant adjective "urinous", but the euphemism was hardly successful as (2) can be homophonous with your anus."