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

Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
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.

I resist the "eye-keah", for no other reason than it makes me
uncomfortable. It feels a bit like "eye-rack", "eye-ran" and
"ay-rab". (I'm sure there is something ironical about this.)

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Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
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