Comment on Riding the bus to the underworld

• Morlark@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No, it’s not you, the joke just doesn’t work.

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Anubis” is the Greek version of his name, so it’s probably pronounced something like AH-noo-beece, with the emphasis on the first syllable.

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So bus is really pronounced beece. Thank you.

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    • exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      One bus, multiple beece?

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nah, it’s just not a great pun.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    plus a lot of Egyptian pronunciation was made up in the 1930s, and nowadays we know differently but the original names stuck

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