Q; pronouncing "Fukushima"

[Tom Zurinskas]

>From the clip provided I heard Fukushima as ~Fookssheemaa (fook-SHE-mah where "ook" is as in "book").  It may be a local or personal dialect.  Makes sense that the "ku" should be spoken, not elided.  Else why is it there?

Nowadays one can provide links to illustrate what one is talking about.  Got links?

Mew woty "codices", from the recent ancient lead book discovery in Jordan 5 years ago.

the freedictionary.com has

USA          ~kaadiseez   COD-ih-seize
UK           ~Koedisseez  code-ih-SEIZE
speaker icon  ~koediseez  CODE-ih-seize


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
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> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:14:44 -0400
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> Poster: Herb Stahlke
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> I've listened to Japanese speakers on the news saying that place name,
> and I hear a voiceless vowel in the second syllable. If the second
> syllable is unaccented, then a high vowel between voiceless consonants
> would be devoiced.
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> Herb
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> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > Is it FOO-koo-SHEE-mah (large accent on SHEE) or foo-Koo-shih-MAH
> > (small or no accent on Koo, larger but still slight on MAH)? I had
> > heard only the former until once hearing a Brit (perhaps from BBC,
> > perhaps only CNN international) use the latter.
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> > (My presumption is that the latter is correct, given what I think I
> > was told once about hi-Roh-shih-MAH.)
> >
> > Joel
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