

You can also see these inconsistencies when reading the fairy tail manga since different websites translates their version of the manga on their own resulting in multiple spellings of a character's name. According to a Wikipedia page on the pronunciation, Kuiper probably changed the way he said his name when he came to the states just to make it a little easier on us all.It has something to do with the author and japanese voice actors having japanese pronunciation and japanese people not knowing the right english spelling for the fairy tail characters thats why various japanese fairy tail products have misspelled names, you can see in the anime where they misspelled erza's name on a grave as elsa, lucy being called rushi or carla being called sharuru, then in the english anime the english voice actor pronounces japanese and english names with their own accent without considering how the japanese people pronounce them such as Erza being called Urza. The Dutch vowels of “ui” are actually pronounced like “œy”, which sounds more like “Koyper” to us. Pluto is located in this icy belt, and so are hundreds of thousands of other icy objects bigger than 62 miles across.


In 1951, he predicted the existence of a belt of icy objects located beyond Neptune’s orbit. The Kuiper Belt was named after the Dutch-American Gerard Kuiper, who many consider to be the father of modern planetary science. Now why on earth would it be pronounced this way, you ask? Good question! In case you didn’t hear that, it’s pronounced a lot like the word “viper”. So we Googled it of course, and here’s how it’s pronounced: As New Horizons propels on towards the Kuiper Belt, we read it all the time, but just never say it out loud. The other day, the redOrbit team was sitting around and it suddenly dawned on us: We didn’t know how to pronounce the Kuiper part of the Kuiper Belt! How embarrassing.
