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acomagutoday at 4:10 PM3 repliesview on HN

Would English speakers pronounce this as "Chat-to"? To a Japanese person, this clearly sounds like "Cha-tto," which simply means "chat."


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bigfishrunningtoday at 4:20 PM

as an english speaker, i would pronounce it "chat-oh", but i'm open to correction

johntashtoday at 4:21 PM

I don't know what the "official" pronunciation is, but I would say "Chat-o" is probably right.

Gualdrapotoday at 4:21 PM

At least here in colloquial "rolo" spanish people use to call "chato" (which would sound the same as "chatto") someone with a pug, snub nose