Bokeh, Bowkah or Bowkay? Whether it was overheard during a conversation with another photographer or during an instructive how-to session video, this often French-sounding word is mostly mispronounced and comes from the Japanese word for "haze" or "blur". It became popular in 1997 with the spelling being changed to "Boke(h)" from "Boke" to reflect the pronunciation which should sound like "po" from "(po)cket" and "ke" as in the beginning of "(ke)ttle".

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