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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread ryoken #86207 11/07/2002 6:39 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Here's a pretty how-to-do. My dictionary gives "ryotan" as Japanese inn. It does not have "ryoten" There are many more sites that us the "a", but a couple that used them interfchangeably. A couple sites said "ryoten" meant "passport". Whoever picked this word for spelling bee was an anal orifice. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ryoken #86208 11/07/2002 7:27 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Ryokan is an inn, ryoken is a passport per my dictionary. No ryoten or ryotan given. The ryo kanji are the same for both ryoken and ryokan; it means travel. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ryoken #86209 11/07/2002 7:34 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 T for K typo. Sorry about that. Again a hell of a word for highschool kid spelling bee. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ryoken #86210 11/07/2002 8:07 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Ryokan I could see as a spelling bee word if they had studied Japanese literature at all. Ryoken I dunno. I doubt the word-giver pronounced it right; the ry(V) combo in Japanese is well outside the English phoneme norm. Where V is any of the vowels a, o or u. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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