From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-03-10T10:20:18+09:00
Subject: Re: the name of Matz

On 11/12/06, Ryo <furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> If anybody is curious, I think the closest sound you find in English to
> the Japanese "a" sound is the standard (RP) British "u" as in "cut".

Interestingly, this is the same 'a' used when transliterating Hindi -
I've often thought it curious/interesting that "a" got mapped to a
sound which it never represents in English.

martin