I know my hearing ain't what it used to be, but that sounds pretty much like
what I said: Zuh-wee-koh, with a tiny bit of emphasis on the wee. But, then,
being a hillbilly speaker, my zuh's and wee's and koh's may not sound like
your'n. :-)
Walt
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the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
> Mark Dapoz wrote:
> > Way back when we had this discussion the first time (Jan 2002?), one
> > of the Japanese list members made recodings of his wife pronouncing several
> > common "Olympus" words, one of which was Zuiko. You can find the recoding
> > here:
> >
> > http://olympus.dementia.org/sounds/zuiko.wav
> >
> Thanks Mark, I was beginning to think that the real old timers on the
> list were starting to suffer from dementia and had forgotten about that
> recording.
>
> Of course, I'd forgotten just where I got it, but was about to re-post
> it on my site.
>
> Moose
>
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