Uno

So we were out the other Friday night at the pub with a group of folks from church celebrating our friend Em's birthday, and somehow it came up that Sarah and I have been playing some Uno lately. Our pronunciation of the word Uno (oo no) set off a sort of debate between Australians of various geographical origins as to whether we were right or if it was pronounced like "you know." We were compeltely flabbergasted at this. It is utterly and completely obvious to us that the name of the game is derived from the spanish word uno, which in english is simply "one." When you have one card left, you say "uno," and hence the name of the game. I don't understand how such a large number of people could totally miss the connection between one and uno, and then think that the word uno should be pronounced with a long u. I could maybe see a short u, like in "under," "utter," or "up," resulting in "uh no." The only word I can think of offhand that has a long u at the beginning is use and it's derivations, which has an e after the consonant. Who knows. I can't believe we're going to have a child in this land of crazed mispronouncers.