Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/03

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Subject: Re: Bokeh (again)
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 18:29:44 -0700
 
At 08:39 AM 9/3/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Simple question - why 'bokeh'?  I understand what it means, but where does
>>the word come from?
>

The word "Bokeh" comes from the two katakana characters "bo" and "ke" which
mean "out-of-focus blur" Bo ke have been transliterated from "boke" to
"bokeh" so that English speaking people will pronounce it correctly.

Jim