Comments on: Yen: We’ve Been Pronouncing It Wrong All These Years! http://www.pennylicious.com/2006/09/27/47/ Finally, a Funny Money Blog! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:54:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: dodgyd55 http://www.pennylicious.com/2006/09/27/47/#comment-85 dodgyd55 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:44:15 +0000 http://www.pennylicious.com/2006/09/27/47/#comment-85 i have pronounced it "en" all the time, i just thought this was common knowledge, like people saying "Mos-Co" instead of "Mos-Cow" i have pronounced it “en” all the time, i just thought this was common knowledge, like people saying “Mos-Co” instead of “Mos-Cow”

]]> By: Brendan http://www.pennylicious.com/2006/09/27/47/#comment-75 Brendan Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:54:09 +0000 http://www.pennylicious.com/2006/09/27/47/#comment-75 Transliteral? More like trans-figurative! It doesn't stop there, either. In fact the Japanese refer to their country as Nihon (or sometimes Nippon). The written characters can be interpreted as "Origin of the Sun," or more poetically "Land of the Rising Sun." The Malay are responsible for our pronounciation, reading the characters "jih pun" for sunrise. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Japan Transliteral? More like trans-figurative! It doesn’t stop there, either. In fact the Japanese refer to their country as Nihon (or sometimes Nippon). The written characters can be interpreted as “Origin of the Sun,” or more poetically “Land of the Rising Sun.” The Malay are responsible for our pronounciation, reading the characters “jih pun” for sunrise.

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