Talk:bokeh

Pronounciation

See http://photo.stackexchange.com/a/6102/1943 for discussion (and http://photo.stackexchange.com/a/14110/1943), and http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-04-04-04.shtml, which says ""it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable." Mattdm (talk) 12:57, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Note that this makes the IPA match the text of the article! Mattdm (talk) 12:58, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Per What is Bokeh? Good, Bad, and Beautiful Bokeh Explained by Rod Lawton, on amateurphotographer.com, 27 May 2024:

• "Perhaps the most accurate pronunciation could be represented as ‘bokk’ followed by a short ‘eh’ sound. That’s ‘eh’ as in ‘air’, but much shorter. The emphasis should be on the ‘bokk’."
• "Some pronounce it as ‘bokker’. That’s [...] not an accurate rendition."
• "Some also pronounce it as ‘boker’, so that’s like ‘baker’ but with an ‘o’. That’s also wrong, [...]."
• "A third pronunciation is ‘bokay’, with the emphasis on the ‘ay’. It sounds a little like ‘bouquet’, and [...] it’s not really any more wrong than the others [...]."

—DIV (1.144.107.158 01:23, 1 July 2024 (UTC))