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Topic Started: 14th March 2006 - 06:52 PM (309 Views)
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O.K. I'm officially confused about the pronunciation of the word 'anime'

I have heard many ways, and no longer know which one to use!

The two most predominant are:

'an-ih-may'

and


'a-neem'
I have underlined the points of stress.

So which one is it? or is it niether?
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I have no idea why it would be pronounced the second way, at least in any English dialect I've heard. I've always heard it pronounced the same as within "animation".

I think a-neem would be written aneme, much like the word meme (pronounced meem), but this language is far from consistent.
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'an-ih-may'
thats atleast the word we use in swedish, then its more like:
'an-im-ä' (a+e=ä... ä sounds like a in am)
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I pronounce it as if it was a Dutch word, so no help here :P
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anime is just a shorter word for animation so i prenounce it the same way an-ni-may -tion
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yes, Anime means Animated Picture in japaneps
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in kana, a-ni-me ... ah-nee-may. No accent anywhere.

Like PM said, it's an abbreviation of animeshyon.
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Sir Plague-a-lot
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I´d use your first example, sounds most right to my ears.
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It would be:

Ae(together)-ni-mé (the é means its an e, and the word ahs an emphasis on it)
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Warwolt the disturbed assassin
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Ae sounds lika A in Am just to help people out with the little hard word. Easy for us up in german and scandinavian with å ä ö :rolleyes:
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JT11
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Whoever pronounces it the second way is fantasticly wrong.
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