I've always used "My-Tah- Knee"
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Robison <omrobison@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] here's how to say Zuiko
> Jim, while on the subject, how is the name Maitani
> pronounced? Do you pronounce it like it is spelled?
> John Robison
> --- Jim Terazawa <jimt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Joel,
> >
> > You are correct. In Roman characters, the
> > consonant sounds are alms always followed
> > by a vowel. Therefore, TSU-NA-MI. Basically
> > the Japanese vowels are A as apple, E as elephant,
> > I as it, O as ostrich, and U as wood. In case of
> > tsunami, the mild emphasis is at tsu (don't
> > remember the word for 'emphasis')
> >
> > In case of zuiko, there are two consecutive vowels.
> > The second vowel (i) sound gets a bit stretched to
> > distinguish from u sound. Therefore, ZU-I-KO is
> > pronounced as zweekoh, where k-oh makes stretched
> > 'o' and mild emphasis is at 'i'.
> >
> > BTW, the above explanation could be wrong from
> > the linguist point of view. I am just trying to
> > be simple.
> >
> > Jim Terazawa
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