Re: no smoRking?

Thanks for all the replies.

Richard VanHouten wrote:

Probably because smoking is スモーキング, and quite often the オー
phoneme is replacing an OR phoneme.

Interesting. Is there a reason for that? Do you have another example of
such a replacement?

Jim Breen wrote:

I was at a concert in the 武道館 in Tokyo years ago where
massed little violinists played what the overhead display said
was the "French Fork Song".

If "smoking" was spelled "smolking" I could understand the similarity.
As I asked Richard above do you know of any other examples where an
extra letter is thrown in with seemingly no cause?

Cheers!

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