Re: Wikipedia logo katakana error.

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:04:18 GMT, mirror wrote:

I think that Mirror hit the nail on the head with his reference to the
article in the New York Times. The character is neither ク nor ワ (so we are
both wrong) but a mistaken rendition of the character ウ.

In Sakade's "Reading and Writing Japanese," she makes the katakana
look much like the one at Wikipedia...
Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese
Florence Sakade
Charles E Tuttle Co, September 1989
ISBN: 0-8048-0226-2

First stroke's pesky little peek above the horizontal of stroke
two. Bah!

I've even got her book somewhere although I haven't looked at it in years
and years. Maybe that's why I inclined towards that reading of what we now
know to be an erroneously written ウ.

Phil Yff
.

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