07 March, 2013

How Japanese mangle English

At Curves recently they put up a large light blue poster with lots of membership numbers and corresponding names on it. This word was at the top of the paper:
プラチナ
Key:

チ    = chi
ナ    = na
プ   = pu
ラ　= ra

Can you guess what the word is? 

Hint: it comes from English.
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6 comments:

  1. Georgia08 March, 2013 03:45

    Is it a type of metal? Or a status indicated by a precious metal?

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  2. Betsy de Cruz08 March, 2013 04:31

    Not a clue! I even tried sounding it out!

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  3. Janet Camilleri08 March, 2013 10:11

    Chin up? China? Nup dunno!

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  4. Martha12 March, 2013 13:24

    A league table of who can do the most chin ups on a bar? Sounding it out I get... Chin up ura. I don't know what "URA" is meant to be tho!

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  5. Caroline12 March, 2013 14:02

    I was wondering something similar to Martha, except that I thought the word might be "pull-chin", but I thought it unlikely that there would be a list on the wall.

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  6. Wendy12 March, 2013 14:18

    Some nice guesses here! I'll post the answer tomorrow morning.

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