Barack Obama was criticized in the last day for repeatedly mispronouncing "Orion" in Orion Energy Systems.

While some of us have known the northern constellations since grade school, I would suspect that President Obama knows how to pronounce about as many English words as I do (and a lot more foreign names than I do).

My guess is that Obama pronounced Orion as "OR-ee-un" because that is how the longtime WGN Chicago announcer Orion Samuelson, "the best-known agricultural broadcaster in the country," pronounces his name.