Re: How do you pronounce "Procyon"?

[bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)]

behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:

>nandu@anest4.anest.ufl.edu (Nandu S. Shah) writes:

>I pronounce it Pro-si-on (or something like that ... I'm not too good
>at phonetics :)

>>And what does it mean?

>Isn't it some astronomical object? If Sun or Moon I forgot ...

  I don't know how the Greeks who named the brigtest star in Canis Minor
pronounce it, but we pronounce it "pro-sigh-un".  The literal translation
to English is "before the dog"; Procyon rises before Sirius in Canis
Major.

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