Re: no smoRking?

<Domomojo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What's the deal with the "No Smorking" signs I often see in Japan. I
don't understand the cause of that particular misspelling. If it was
"No Smokingu" or some other spawn of katakanafied English I would get
it, but where is that "r" coming from?

Not directly related to your "No smorking" question, which has now been answered, but I still remember the "Nosmo King" sign at Keisei Nippori station in the early 1990s. I doubt it is still there, and unfortunately it was before the days of digicams and mobile phones, otherwise I would have taken a picture for posterity.


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Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan

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