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		labster 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Handling cookies is a minefield Tokio is a different (masculine) name in Japanese, pronounced quite differently. /tokʲio/ vs. /to̞ːkʲo̞ː/. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio_(given_name)

j16sdiz 9 months ago [–]

We are talking about the spelling centuries ago, when the romanisation were less standardised

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