whats in a name????
hi all
my first of many questions...
is our breed pronounced Shiba in you! or Shiba inooo.?? i hope you get the gist of how i am trying to spell the two different sounds. lol
my first of many questions...
is our breed pronounced Shiba in you! or Shiba inooo.?? i hope you get the gist of how i am trying to spell the two different sounds. lol
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E new
I also say E New
Kristin: ...corrected the hubby of this unexceptable... unacceptable is probably closer to what you meant. :-P (Sorry, couldn't help myself :-)).
Here is a link to a voice clip on how it's pronounced. Though it's a bit robotic sounding
柴=Shiba
犬=Inu
柴犬 Shiba Inu ~
I say Shiba to people who ask. its easier, one word, heard before, done.
When I do pronounce the entire word, I do it as LJ does.
I am with all thee above...or as we like to pronounce it..."Little Shit"
Ooooh. My bad Kristin. Kinda sad when you make a mistake while correcting someone. *looks embarrassed*
LOL. Dont feel bad....happens to the best of us! HAHAH
Jesse
I lived in Japan for the first 10 years of my life and until I left my prefecture, I didn't even know that some people called them Shiba Inu or Akita Inu.. haha.. Where I was raised, we called them Shiba Ken and Akita Ken.. the word 犬 can be read as inu or ken... yeah us Japanese people like to make everything harder than it should be....
I guess people who live in Japan would say Ken, while 'outsiders' would say Inu. But, either way, you can say Ken or Inu, both are correct.
I pronounce it as In new or sometimes as enew.
"the lady at the grooming place we went to called Keiko a "Shiba Emo" ... /sigh"
Did you tell her Keiko is not allowed near eyeliner nor a staightener?
I also had concerns that naming our puppy a Japanese name would suck if we didn't know what we were saying, but somewhere on Google I managed to find a site that had recordings... I'll have to try to dig that up!