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Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨rtxn@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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Explanation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name

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  • dogsnest@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Karen.

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    • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The guide across the river Styx?

      Yes.

      Moon?

      No.

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      • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’re the same dude

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  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

    This guy is pronounced Karen

    The moon like Sharon

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    • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t make sense for the moon to be different than the god since it’s named after him (hence why they chose that name for a moon of Pluto, lord of the underworld).

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      • geogle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Named for a dude’s wife, Charlene, and shorthorns into an appropriate mythological figure

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Care on

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    • Jakylla@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As a non English native: “Car on”

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah that’s how I’d pronounce it too, as a native English speaker.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is typically how it’s pronounced in english.

      in greek, the C is basically silent, and it’s pronounced like Hair-on,

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      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In ancient Greek it was pronounced as “k”.

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    • Darkard@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sharon

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      • silverchase@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Kerry picked example

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    • lath@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Car on.

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  • joe_archer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All of the idiots in this thread thinking they know how it’s pronounced.

    It’s pronounced charon. SMH.

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  • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sh’yeah-ron. The way Wayne from Wayne’s World would have said it.

    Do you think I’m a gulli-bull? Or even a gulli-calf?

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sharon!!

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kharon ofc

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  • ns1@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always found it funny to read it as Sharon, and now you’re telling me it’s named after someone called Charlene? This keeps getting better

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  • vonxylofon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The correct pronunciation is Chacarron. Rhymes with Macarron.

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  • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, Charon if I’ve been speaking Italian more recently & Charon if French

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  • Quik@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Χάρων, of course

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