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We've been pronouncing it wrong for years. It's pronounced To-ho, not Tow-ho.

>>1887610
1 clear
next pronounce ahoge, niijiura and agehao

What does Toho mean?

>>1887627
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>>1887632
Is Toho spelled the same as Touhou?

For example, is there a Japanese way to spell both Toho and Touhou? Or are they separate words, with different meanings? Yes, I fail at moonspeak.

>>1887604

BRB Enrolling

>>1887649
Spelling can vary when using alphabetical writing. It really depends on what romanization system you use.

>>1887649
>Is Toho spelled the same as Touhou?

This could possibly be the most retarded thing I've ever seen posted on the Internet.

So... Touhou literally translates to East? Would that be the equivalent of me naming a video game West?

>>1887712
Seihou

Toho Company Ltd. (東宝株式会社, Tōhō Kabushiki-gaisha)

Touhou Project (東方Project, Tōhō Purojekuto)

>>1887712

Yes, but the Japanese equivalent for it has been taken also.

>>1887732
What about southern and eastern?

>>1887649

Yes, it's pronounced toh-hoh, not toe-hoe. We know.

>>1887737
Wrong, it's pronounced toe-hoe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1fFyKJ3m7E

Listen to the way the man and the female pronounce it.

>>1887737

wtf - isn't that the same

> tauhou

>>1887736
Southern and Northern, you mean?

Nanpou: 南方 【なんぽう】 (n,adj-no) south; southern; southward;
Hoppou: 北方 【ほっぽう】 (n,adj-no) northern (district); northward;

東方 and 東宝　are both pronounced the same way just written differently. This is not anything new in Japanese.

so it's pronounced toʊ - hoʊ then?

>>1887737
But "toh" is pronounced like the English word "toe", so it's really just romanization convention.

>>1887773
Oh, I didn't notice that they used different Kanji. Yeah, Godzilla's Toho means something like "Eastern Treasure".

It's actually pronounced Tron Bonne

>>1887792
>Oh, I didn't notice that they used different Kanji.
I can understand since no one else posted the difference in the thread. Oh wait...>>1887719

Who was the person that first declared it Touhou? Shouldn't the correct romanization be Toho?

>>1887833
There are different types of romanization.

>>1887837
Yeaaah, suuure.

I'm of to /e/ - Etti.

>>1887780

No. Toh is pronounced with a long, constant o., e.g. Tohsaka.

Toe is pronounced with a long, upturned o.

Japanese constants do not change in sound while you're saying them.

>>1887846
You're an idiot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese

>>1887848

What do you mean by "upturned"? As in how the o drops in tone?

Also, I think people were thinking of the English "Oh" as sounding as "toe" or "tow"

>>1887863

Oh for おお or おう (Hepburn ō).

Ou for おう

both are fine

>>1887848
>Toe is pronounced with a long, upturned o.
>upturned o.
Wat? Give me an example, Mr English expert.

How many Europeans are posting in this thread. ITT, Europe versus the American education system.

>>1887882
toe
goat
show
no
Moe
F.O.E
əʊ

99% of you amerifags are too retarded to pronounce even simple words anyway

I pronounce it two who

>>1887833
"Touhou" is more weeaboo than "Toho"

Plus, whenever I see Toho, I think of Godzilla.

>>1888543
Toho or tōhō just looks wrong. ワープロ is the only type of romanization that makes sense.