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Originally Posted by trunker
theres a zurich insurance advert on tv right now which pronounces zurich as choorihi in japanese.
so i'm wondering if it might be that the pronunciation was appropriated from a culture that doesnt pronounce zurich as zookrikh.
any ideas?
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According to the dictionary I looked at Zurich is pronounced チューリッヒ because the German pronunciation sounds like that. Keep in mind that Japanese and German are pretty different in sounds, so that may sound completely wrong to German ears, but listening to the online pronunciation from German, I can "see" it for Japanese.