Date   : Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:10:34
From   : heyrick.beebsoc@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: [BeebSoc] Re: Auntie, dear Auntie

On 05/08/2011 03:41, J.G.Harston wrote:

>>> Does Sony mean suicide in any language? Everything they seem to invent,
>>> they kill.
>> Maybe in Japanese? ;-)

> It's certainly not a Japanese word as you can't have a syllable
> ending in a consonant (other than 'n'). "Sonyo" would be a Japanese
> word, as "Sanyo" is.

Sure you can, if you think that the 'y' is only a romanisation 
convention. It would be something like ?? or so-ni.

[looks at Wiki]

Close. It is actually ??? (sonii) followed by some stuff nobody 
outside of Japan knows.


Best wishes,

Rick.