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stripped of just the headers, but with both your email addresses in the
form <user[at]domain[dot]extension> at
http://student.ucr.edu/~siddim01/olympus.html>. Unless otherwise
indicated, I take it you approve. Thanks>
<note to fellow Zuiks(ettes): this from Deja.com archives, and as with all
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From: "Shinichi Hayakawa" <shaya@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How do you pronounce "Zuiko"?
Date: 03 Dec 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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Good job, Andrew. I couldn't have done better if I tried.
FWIW, "zuiko" means "auspicious light" in Japanese. It's one of those
words
that you see only in dictionaries and have no idea what it's really like.
The former name of Olympus Co. was "Takachiho Kogaku." "Kogaku" means
"optics" and "Takachiho" was the name of the mountain onto which a god had
descended from the heaven according to Japanese mythology. Hence the name
Olympus.
Shinichi
AndrewAIW <andrewaiw@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Zuiko, as you probably guessed is a Japanese word. The correct
pronounciation
> would be hard to write. You have to speak Japanese to really "nail" it.
But, in
> a general sense, the first response was right.
>
> Zoo.Ee.Koh
>
> With a an accent on "iko". It's not like Zooico, but rather zu EE ko if
that
> makes any sense. Just say it fast. Say the Zu part quick, accentuate
"iko".
>
> Zuiko wa ii desu ka? I don't know the answer to that, I don't own any.
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