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Anonymous
Even a cursory knowledge of Japanese pronunciation will give you the hint it's "eh-chi." While romanization isn't perfect, Japanese doesn't have the variance that English does in vowel sounds. You don't have "ea" being "eh" like in "weather" and then "ee" as in "eat." Or, a better case, "anime" is actually "ah-nee-meh" since it's the same sound as the a in "samurai" - "sah-moo-rah-ee." But many people will say "aaa-nuh-mee" and "sah-moo-rye." If you compared in in hiragana, it'd be easier to see the differences between something like "ichigo" and words that have similar sounds.
As for whether or not the word was derived from H in "hentai," that's a fairly accepted explanation, but really.. don't know, don't care.
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