How to pronounce 'bokeh'? Where is the stress?

[yehudakgtbnet]

Thank you,
Yehuda

 

[khoss]

From the Japanese boke = blur.
regards,
Kurt

 

[yehudakgtbnet]

From the Japanese boke = blur.
regards,
Kurt

 

[khoss]

BO (long O) Kuh as in duh. Does that help ? Or maybe better is BŌ Kǔh.

 

[yehudakgtbnet]

BO (long O) Kuh as in duh. Does that help ? Or maybe better is
BŌ Kǔh.

 

[KE_DP]

http://photonotes.org/cgi-bin/entry.pl?id=Bokeh
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• Karen

 

[Mike Fitzgerald]

Thanks for that link, which probably demonstrates the "shortened" sound of the second syllable (especially) as well as one could ask for in print.

As for stress, since it appears to be derived from the Japanese then it's my understanding that the stress would be even, with no particular emphasis on either syllable.

http://photonotes.org/cgi-bin/entry.pl?id=Bokeh
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• Karen

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Mike
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[Photos-Mike]

"Actually, even spelled boke, it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable."

From this article:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-04-04-04.shtml

So, take the Hebrew Boker (morning), and change the first vowel to the english "so", drop the r at the end, and you have it.

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[Moti]

It is like Boker Tov without the "R"

Erev tov
Moti

 

[Photos-Mike]

Same word (Boker) different result - see my post one up from this.
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[inframan]

of it when you shoot. I have never said the word aloud, only in my head where I pronounce it bouquet as in flowers.

There used to be a radio jingle that went Did you get a bouquet with your coffee today?" So I just sing that in my head when setting up a shot with beaucoup bokeh.

jp

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[Moti]

Moti

 

[jrdu]

because it points out that referring to bokeh as either good or bad is gauche, (lacking social polish). Ha ha.
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[jrdu]

http://www.vanwalree.com/optics/bokeh.html
(It's off topic, anyway, because it doesn't tell you how to pronounce it.)
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[froxfield_rover]

Well this thread is becoming as clear as mud! I normally pronounce it like "bouquet" but I think it's not like that now.. if you look over the web it looks like many others struggle with alternative pronunciations also!

I think it should be "bouquet" but with a sort of strangulated shortened ending.

I did a quick scan of the web and manged to find a japanese sound file pronuncing it. The problem is that the b looks like it's been truncated at the beginning??

http://olympus.dementia.org/sounds/

I note the link refers to dementia!

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Patrick

 

[jrdu]

If you are born in France, do you pronounce "bouquet" in a Francophonic way?
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[froxfield_rover]

Don't start!!
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Patrick

 

[jrdu]

That sounds like "bucket" to me.
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[froxfield_rover]

Lol - could be!

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Patrick

 

[inframan]

No. Gramophonic is easier.
jp
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