Noob question: how do you pronounce "Bokeh?"

[Bill_1856]

I'm from the South. We say boo-key. Rhymes with Kookie (as in 77 Sunset Strip), Pooky (as in the Sterile Cookoo), and Vukey (as in the world's greatest Indy 500 driver, the late, great Bill Vukovitch).

[Capocheny]

Here in Canada... it's pronounced,

Bo (as in low) keh (as in kay)

Okay, bo kay? [Gotta stop drinking so much of that red wine!]

Cheers

[Paul Fitzgerald]

I thought it rhymed with 'bouquet'

or 'Heliar'.

[Eric James]

I've been pronouncing it like boka, long "O" short "a" for a decade and will be hard-pressed to train myself as advised above. It's a valuable consideration, bokeh, and I often avoid using particular lenses wide open. I haven't read many discussions on the subject here because of our ability to render many compositions fully focused without stopping down to miniscule apertures.

[Bob Gentile]

"... Gotta stop drinking so much of that red wine...!"

But reds have such a nice bokeh... er, bouquet!

[Hiro]

In Japanese, both vowels (o and e) are short--bo as in "boy" and ke(h) as in "que (sera sera)," though I imagine particularly the ending would sound and feel abrupt.
Bokeh also refers to the fuzziness of mental faculties in an Alzheimer sort of way.

or 'Heliar'.

or "Cooke"?

[Eric James]

Or Noob.

[Capocheny]

But reds have such a nice bokeh... er, bouquet!

Hello Bob,

Nice!

Cheers

[Emrehan Zeybekoglu]

Does anybody know how it is spelled in Japanese (using Japaneses characters)?

[GPS]

Bokeh - bo (like in bo-nd) + ke (like in ke-pt) +h (like in h-e). bokeh.