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Originally posted by Grojlach:
While we're on the subject of nitpicking, I believe it's actually spelled "karaoke". 
But on the subject of how to pronounce it...
*grabs his Longman Pronunciation Dictionary*
(as I've got no idea on how to reproduce the phonetic symbols for English, I'll just try to explain it the long way )
The first "a" is similarly pronounced as the a in bad and trap; the second "a" is actually pronounced like the y in happy and the first i in radiation. The "o" is pronounced like the o in no, the oa in goat and the ow in show. The final "e" is pronounced the same way as the second "a" was pronounced. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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If you wanna pronounce it the way it should be pronounced, then the way we Dutch say it comes closer to the real thing. It's a japanese word, and they pronounce it almost exactly like we do. The English pronounciation doesn't even come close to that. Stupid peasants.
