Toyoda/Toyota (was: a wee predating of hotdog - if true - to circa 1870 )

[Lisa Galvin]

The Japanese character representing the last syllable of the name can have either pronunciation: "ta" or "da", in Japanese. Why one pronunciation was chosen over the other for the name vs. the company, I'm not sure.

                                                   

Lisa

 

> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:01:17 -0500
> From: JMB at STRADLEY.COM
> Subject: Re: a wee predating of hotdog - if true - to circa 1870 (UNCLASSIFIED)
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> Note that the linked video alleges the preservation of a hot dog
> from 1870, not that the term was used then.
> 
> "Toyoda" is the normal spelling of the surname of Akio Toyoda,
> the CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation. I'm not sure why the spellings of
> the corporate name and the family name diverge.
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> 
> John Baker
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> The linked video is immediately followed by one entitled "Japan reacts
> to Toyoda hearings" -- never seen it spelled that way before.
> 
> The hot dog video should have been released on 1 April.
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> > Get em red hot, right here:
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> http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/02/25/reid.old.hotdog.news12?h
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