| NOTES | Katakana Lesson 3, Page 072:
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| All About Particles (Power Japanese). |
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| The following additional procedures will help identify Japanese loanwords that occur in this lesson. | | 4. | Is there an occurence of h It may represent the initial sound of English 'hood' or 'food' The latter correspondence is particularly common when h is followed by the vowel u.
| Examples: | huuzuhuu = 'who's who' | | hurañsu = 'France' | | serohañ = 'cellophane' |
Is there an occurrence of ho before wa This combination may represent English 'wh' + vowel, as in 'why', 'whine', etc It approximates the 'hw' pronunciation used by some speakers of English.
| Example: | howaito = 'white' |
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