Re: 'Tefu-tefu' read as 'Choo-choo'

Bart Mathias wrote:
> Kind of an odd thing to say. You're talking about an example where the
> long "o" was spelt "-eu," and the spelling "(-)ahu" was just mentioned.
> Maybe you meant "all the long お [except those that came from "-opo"]
> were already spelt with う"? ("Long お”doesn't work any better than 長
> いお, by the way.)


I was thinking more of オー that were spelt オウ even in old orthography
- 欧、応、翁 etc.

Similarly for エー - plenty of examples of エイ in old orthography too:
栄、英、映、永 etc.

If the question is why it was オウ and エイ even in old orthography...
well, I think that it is because these sounds were not pronounced オー
and エー initially, but rather as diphthongs.

A slightly more interesting question would be why the -ng of Chinese
became ウ or イ in Japanese...
.

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