• waigl@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Also, Tokyo has two long "o"s (sometimes transliterated more correctly as Tōkyō), while Kyoto (more precise transliteration; Kyōto) only has one. They are not actually anagrams of each other.

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      10 days ago

      Or, more natively put, きょうと is not an anagram of とうきょう, missing out on a う. And 都 isn’t 東.