Re: Let Me Introduce Myself
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 1, 2005, 14:08 |
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 11:12:10PM -0500, Ph. D. wrote:
> Local newscasters here seem to pronounce "tsunami" as
> though the |t| is silent. I don't seem to have trouble pronouncing
> all the letters. Is this the normal pronunciation in English?
> Should I even care?
As Tristan said, it's not uncommon. I pronounce the t, but then I also
pronounce the t in "tsar", so I'm not a good test case.
The standard Japanese pronunciation definitely includes the t, although
there may be dialects that don't; there would be an awful lot of
homophones in such a dialect, though.
-Marcos