From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-06-01T13:40:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] "Tollkit" vs. "Toolkit" (Was: [ANN] Ruby-VTK-0.2.0 was released)

Hello,

In message "Re: [OT] "Tollkit" vs. "Toolkit" (Was: [ANN] Ruby-VTK-0.2.0 was released)"
    on Wed, 1 Jun 2005 06:10:13 +0900, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@gmx.de> writes:

|At Mon, 30 May 2005 11:42:32 +0900, Seiya Nishizawa wrote:
|> Ruby-VTK is a ruby wrapper of VTK (The Visualization Tollkit:
|
|I send this message to the list because not only Seiya Nishizawa may
|benefit from this:

Even though I feel the mistake was caused by simple finger slipping,
your article was amusing.

|[1] It took me some time to find a word that starts with oo (to make
|sure the first "o" is an "お" and then to make usre the second "o" is
|an "お" and not a "う". (Could anybody please check if I got the a/an
|issue right?)

FYI, there are a few words to use "oo" for the long vowel.

とおい
おおい
こおり
おおかみ
こおろぎ
とお
とおる

My teacher told me once in elementary school with the mnemonic:

  遠くの大きな氷の上を多くの狼とコオロギが十通った
  とおくのおおきなこおりのうえをおおくのおおかみとこおろぎがとおとおった
  tooku no ookina koori no ue wo ooku no ookami to koorogi ga too tootta.
  Many wolves and ten crickets walked on the far away huge ice.

We use "ou" for other words.
Sorry for being off topic so much.  But I couldn't stand.

							matz.