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Old 03-16-2006, 07:06 AM   #2
Dirk Hanss
 
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Re: Morihei Ueshiba Pronunciation!

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Daniel Cottrell wrote:
How do you pronounce the founder's name? Is it:

1) more hi oosheeba ?

2) more ee hi awshiba ?

3) Or something different?


EDITED: Also, how do you pronounce noquet?

Japanes pronounciation is mostly quite straight forward, so he is pronounced Morihei Ueshiba, clear?

Well it is a little bit difficult to transcribe it to English as Mark Twain did show us that "fish" is pronounced "ghoti", or was it vice versa?

My best guess is More-ee-hae OO-e-shiba

Same for French, if you mean André Nocquet, i ld say "Nok-ae", English is quite difficult to write it without potential misinterpretation

Dirk
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