From: | Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...> |
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Date: | Monday, January 5, 2004, 23:36 |
Nik Taylor wrote:> How is "geisha" pronounced in English other than /gejS@/?, which > seems > to me to be a pretty reasonably close approximation. The only > other > possibility I can think of that people might use is /gajS@/, but > I've > never heard that.When I was a kid (and the US was occupying Japan), US soldiers said /giS@/ and a popular song pronounced it that way too.