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Hi. <BR>
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Thanks to Frank Bennett for the URL (<A href="http://www.kanji.org/cjk/samples/jnamevar.htm">http://www.kanji.org/cjk/samples/jnamevar.htm</A>); this is helpful!<BR>
<BR>As he has noted, on a quick review of the words transcribed at the above URL, there seems to be a lot of similarity between Revised Hepburn, traditional Hepburn (except that the n's and m's are transcribed differently, it seems), and the typical U.S. transliterations of Japanese words; however there are also some other variants that seem to use similar transliteration systems--I suppose that it would be nice to know exactly what the subtag 'hepburn' is meant to stand for thus--if that is possible.<BR>
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In any case it is nice to have the ['hepburn'] subtag no longer stand for just the revised Hepburn transliteration.<BR>
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(Sorry for my confusion earlier--I take it that the system used by roads is not revised Hepburn apparently?? in spite of the 'n's and 'm's)<BR>
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Best,<BR>
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--C. E. Whitehead<BR>
<A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A> <BR><BR><BR></body>
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