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Question

Betelgeuse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse)

any reason why bettlejuice might have been inspired by this star? (i mean the name, not the character)

Answer 1

No clue, and the entry for the film doesn't help. About your linking problem put a space before and after. Clicking the first link will get you to Betelgeuse) . Get it?

Answer 2

This is an excellent example of why wikipedia is such a poor source of information. Anyone can log on and make or modify and entry. Links can change, be removed, or plain not work. Something posted today can be gone tomorrow, and there goes your source! There is no way to verify anything, you might have well have just made it up. Additionally, because articles are the result on multiple contributors adding and removing information with no coordination, they are often rambling and confusing.

Edit: Here, try the link below. It can give you the origin of the star's name (Betelgeuse) and some basic info about the star itself. I hope that helps.

Answer 3

My guess is Bettlejuice sounds icky.  The character in the movie is equally icky.  The name is a corruption of the Arabic يد الجوزاء yad al-jawzā, hand of the central one. The Arabs had earlier called Gemini Jauza ("the central one") but later switched this name to Orion instead. European mistransliteration into Latin during the Middle Ages led to the first character y (ï»´, with two dots underneath) being misread as a b (ﺒ, with only one dot underneath). Thus throughout the Renaissance the star's name was written as Bait al-Jauza and thought to mean armpit of the central one in Arabic. This led to the modern rendering as Betelgeuse (although a true translation of "armpit" would be ابط, transliterated as IbÅ£,[6] hence in 1899 Richard Hinckley Allen mistakenly gave the origin as IbÅ£ al Jauzah).[7] In German, the star's name was corrupted even further: it is called Beteigeuze, because the letter l in the romanised name was mistaken for the letter i.

Because of its rich reddish color the star has also been called "the martial one" and in astrology Betelgeuse portends military or civic honors. This bright star has had many other names:

    * Al Dhira (the Arm)[7]

    * Al Mankib (the Shoulder),[7]

    * Al Yad al Yamma (the Right Hand),[7]

    * Ardra (Hindi,[7] and name of Hindu Nakshatra),

    * Bahu (Sanskrit),[7]

    * BaÅ¡n (Persian) (the Arm),

    * Gula (Euphratean),

    * Ied Algeuze (Orion's Hand),[7]

    * Klaria (Coptic) (an Armlet)[7]

    * Yedelgeuse

In Chinese, Betelgeuse is known as 参宿四 (Shēnsùsì, the Fourth Star of the Constellation of Three Stars) because the Constellation of Three Stars was at first a name for only three stars in the girdle of the Orion. Four more stars were later added to this constellation but the earlier name stuck.