SR Millis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >What is the correct pronunciation for "Akaike" as in AIC? > >Thanks, >SR Millis (rhymes with "bacillus") > >
In Japanese, all letters are pronounced. Try: Aka-ee-ke Now try pronouncing Toyota! `y` is always a consonant in Japanese, so it should be something like: To-yow-ta where the first `o' is short. instead of what we usually hear: Toy-ow-ta -- Alan Miller (Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences) http://www.ozemail.com.au/~milleraj http://users.bigpond.net.au/amiller/ ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
