So while I was watching My-Hime (舞-HiME), the students were counting as they were practicing their tennis swings. So I counted along with them: ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, (by this time, the chanting has faded away) shichi, ocho *screeching halt*. Ocho?!?! Is that 8 in Japanese? Wait… What the heck. How did Spanish suddenly get involved? I couldn’t help but laugh at the situation. I racked my mind a bit to figure out what 8 was in Japanese and I figured it out moments later to be hachi.
It’s funny how I’ve mixed up numbers like that. Then again, ocho technically can be a Japanese word: おちょ. So maybe that was why it sounded right for a moment.