Re: [OT} Why is Japanese radio so unbelievably bad?

jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> dixit:

Ben Bullock wrote:

I drove to Chiba today to go to Ikea (pronounced イケア in Japanese, by
the way), [...]


How else would it be pronounced in any language?


A lot of people say "eye-keah".

Of course! I know I've heard it that way, and even if I hadn't I should
have been able to guess it.

More evidence that I'm on my way out?

Bart
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