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[Jim Bitgood]

I kind of prefer to see the names rendered into the Latin alphabet to 
match the Japanese spelling. It helps me to learn the names and 
pronounciations. And I can tell the difference between "Mori" and 
"Mouri" on the banzuke.
Of course, no matter how a word is spelled, it doesn't necessarily 
follow that it represents the normal (or even "correct") pronounciation.
I live in Merlyn, not too far from Bawmer. :-)

At 03:17 11/17/2007, you wrote:
>While I realize this list is directed at English-speakers, spelling it so
>that an (American) English speaker can pronounce it easily doesn't mean that
>it's the proper transliteration. Among languages using the 'English'
>alphabet, there are all sorts of different pronunciations. So people tend to
>spell things more-or-less along certain rules, none of which include trying
>to make it easier to pronounce for an English speaker.

         Jim
         "Chitose-Taikai"