The Tokyo Olympics have ended, and so has NBC’s fortnight of butchered Japanese words. An avid watcher of the games, I heard Tokyo pronounced “Tokiyo” at least a thousand times during the Olympics’ sixteen days, and “Tokyo” less than twenty. Not that I was surprised, or expected better. But I’m mystified that Japanese, a language with no silent letters …
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