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Re:Rice Cooker Hacks - The Ebert Way by patio11 on Thursday December 20, 2012 @05:21PM (#4950434)
While you're correct, it is historically a loanword from Portuguese, not from Spanish. You can verify this in your favorite 国語辞典 if you want to. Like many loanwords, the pronunciation got corrupted a bit. (An example in the other direction: Godzilla, which you'd have to take several stabs at before a Japanese person guessed you meant gojira.)
Re:Rice Cooker Hacks - The Ebert Way by lhorie on Friday December 21, 2012 @09:40AM (#4952793)
sorry, I don't have japanese installed. What's the romaji for the word you used after "favorite"?
Re:Rice Cooker Hacks - The Ebert Way by patio11 on Friday December 21, 2012 @02:40PM (#4954166)
kokugo jiten -- a Japanese language dictionary