this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
439 points (98.2% liked)

History Memes

3479 readers
257 users here now

THIS COMM HAS MOVED

!historymemes@piefed.social

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
PugJesus@lemmy.world
PugJesus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
439
nara (quokk.au)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/historymemes@lemmy.world
26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] waigl@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.