>At 00:16 10/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Eric Christopherson wrote:
>>> Hey! I always wondered why _tabako_ was written in hiragana! :D
>>
>>Yeah, apparently it's just been in the language for so long, that they
>>seem to have forgotten that it was foreign! Or maybe when it entered
>>the language the distinction between hiragana and katakana wasn't so
>>strict? Any Japanese experts out there?
>>
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