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When I look at samui in OJAD, it gives two pronunciations for samukatta - SAmukatta and saMUkatta - and lists them in that order, which I understand to mean that SAmukatta is the standard one in tokyo dialect.

I found the source files for AJATT's NHK 2016 audio, which I presume (perhaps incorrectly?) is the actual audio for the NHK 2016 pronunciation dictionary. That has two audio files for samukatta with pronunciation SAmukatta coming first, and saMUkatta second, consistent with what I saw in OJAD.

However, my girlfriend is Japanese (but has been living in the UK since about 2000) and says that SAmukatta sounds wrong to her, which would suggest that if it is standard, it has become standard recently. She is fine with saMUkatta.

Also, when I ask google gemini (I know, I know), it says that "In standard Tokyo Japanese, the accent (the "drop" in pitch) happens immediately after the "mu". Younger generations in Tokyo sometimes shift the accent to the ka (sa-MU-KA-t-ta), but the accent never falls on the sa."

So I see some conflicting information. Can anyone help?

Many thanks!

I haven't been able to find out how to do this, but it seems like a sensible thing to do (useful for me anyway - I want to fill up a tax bracket, but I don't currently want any more money beyond that - I want to leave it invested and tax-protected)

It seems like if I take an uncrystallised funds pension lump sum (UFPLS), that by necessity involves a 25% tax free portion.

If I crystallize a portion of my fund, the crystallized part also is 25% tax free and I can't leave that 25% invested and withdraw it at a later time, I have to withdraw that immediately even though I can leave the other 75% of the crystallization invested?

Is that really right? I was hoping I could just pull out taxable chunks of the 75% taxable, and treat the other 25% as basically its own separate thing.

Thank you for your help!