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[76attendees] How to pronounce "Hiroshima"

"Dale Worley" <dworley@nortel.com> Thu, 05 November 2009 16:50 UTC

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Subject: [76attendees] How to pronounce "Hiroshima"
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I was once in Japan long ago, and one of the few things I remember about
Japanese is that the pronunciation of "Hiroshima" is much different than
it is in English.  In (Standard American) English, it is pronounced "hi
roe SHEE ma", but in Japanese (IIRC) it is closer to "hi ROE shi ma".
Also, that "R" is a "flap r", much like the single "r" in Spanish.  It
sounds a lot like "t" to this American ear.  (It is actually the same as
the "t" in "butter" in Standard American English pronunciation.)

Dale

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