Re: [Haskell-cafe] anybody can tell me the pronuncation of "haskell"?

Here in Japan, it's pronounced in four syllables with no accent, as follows: Hah (as in "Hah, I see.") Sue (as in the name) Ke (as in the first syllable of "ketchup") Ru (as in the first syllable of "Lucas," since there is no difference between "l" and "r" sounds in Japanese) Put together, it sounds as follows: Hah-Sue-Ke-Ru Here's the URL of the Japanese Wikipedia page for Haskell Curry (for those who can read Japanese): http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E... Benjamin L. Russell --- Paulo Tanimoto wrote:

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Another Japanese word adopted from Portuguese is

On Jan 29, 2008 11:19 AM, Jeremy Apthorp wrote: their word for "bread": "pan".

"tabako" too, I believe (it's not even written in katakana).

Now, how do the Japanese pronounce Haskell, I'd like to know.

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