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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
City Puzzle
What country's current capital city has a name that can be cyclically shifted some number of letters to get the name of its former capital?
I don't want to be a pendant (and yet here I am typing out a pendantic rebuttal) but that only works if you mis-transliterate Tokyo and Kyoto. Tokyo has two long 'o's meaning it should be transliterated as 'Toukyou' Kyouto only has the one, thus 'Kyouto'
Tokyo - Kyoto
ReplyDeleteJapan: the name "Tokyo" was deliberately chosen as a permutation of "Kyoto".
ReplyDeleteI don't want to be a pendant (and yet here I am typing out a pendantic rebuttal) but that only works if you mis-transliterate Tokyo and Kyoto.
ReplyDeleteTokyo has two long 'o's meaning it should be transliterated as 'Toukyou'
Kyouto only has the one, thus 'Kyouto'
Yup, only a permutation in English.
ReplyDeleteTokyo means "Eastern Capital" in Japanese, as it is to the east of Kyoto ("Capital metropolis").