Dan's weekly dumb question...

[SquirrelHollow]

PoT-ash

KAY-toh

[Glenn Poole]

Ed,KATO is pronounced KAH-TOE.

Unless like 99% of Americans you butcher Japanese words.

I have called them on the phone, and they answer  KAH-TOE.

[DKS]

This question saw a lot of mileage on the A board. I have it from a very reliable source (a fellow who has spent time with Mr. Kato) that it's actually Kah-doe, with the "d" bordering on being a "t" but not quite as hard.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Ed,KATO is pronounced KAH-TOE.

Unless like 99% of Americans you butcher Japanese words.

I guess I do.

But that's how I've always heard it since I was a kid.

[up1950s]

In the East everything is sad as shortly as possible , we just called the ash part of a smoked joint ASH , never POTASH .

[Ed Kapuscinski]

In the East everything is sad as shortly as possible , we just called the ash part of a smoked joint ASH , never POTASH .

Winner winner chicken dinner!

[daniel_leavitt2000]

On the Kato, I'm pretty sure it is Kah-dtough.
Joy is Thai, so I am familiar with the complete inability for any Westerner to correctly pronounce anything in a East Asian language.

[Kiwi-Dixie]

hey its spoken like this,Kar-to.Kato is the company that manufacters mobile and stationary construction cranes,