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ロンドン橋落ちた (London bridge is falling down) is pronounced はし or ばし?
I heard this from a girl singing in the Guilty Crown episode 1 (8:30 mark). When I went to look it up, Google translate and ichi.moe say 橋 is はし but I'm pretty sure I hear a "b" in the song like they're singing ばし, and I think Google translate pronounces "b" in the full line too.
Is this just how a は sounds like after a ん? Is it just this phrase? Am I mishearing?
Thank you for those links Ringil and Naruto. To have an answer here:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku
Rendaku (連濁, Japanese pronunciation: [ɾendakɯ], lit. "sequential voicing") is a phenomenon in Japanese morphophonology that governs the voicing of the initial consonant of a non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word.
ひと + ひと → ひと-びと hito + hito → hitobito ("person" + "person" → "people")
So I guess that's what's happening here. The second part of the compound is はし and is pronounced ばし. And the rules about this Rendaku are complicated.
