Our sun’s proper name in English is not Sol. It’s just the Sun. It’s referred to as Sol in various scifi franchises and some Romance languages which is where the misconception comes from, but in English it’s just “the Sun.”
I think part of it just comes from the practice of naming other star systems after the star they orbit. E.g. the Epsilon Eridani system orbits Epsilon Eridani. Our own star system is generically called the “Solar System,” so sci-fi likes to formalize into the Sol System.
Our sun’s proper name in English is not Sol. It’s just the Sun. It’s referred to as Sol in various scifi franchises and some Romance languages which is where the misconception comes from, but in English it’s just “the Sun.”
Yeah, well, me and Sol are bros, so imma keep calling him by the cool nickname he got when he was travelling through Spain
Better Call Sol.
I think part of it just comes from the practice of naming other star systems after the star they orbit. E.g. the Epsilon Eridani system orbits Epsilon Eridani. Our own star system is generically called the “Solar System,” so sci-fi likes to formalize into the Sol System.
Isn’t sol latin?
It is, and it’s Spanish as well.