Sounds like 'Zee-ko to me with the accent on the first syllable. Now
I'm really dazed and confused. 8-)
Richard
Walt Wayman wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> 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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