Re: Japanese long vowels, was Re: Whatever happened to Aelya?

Roger Mills wrote:
> JOOC am I correct in guessing that word-final "h" (sometimes syllable final
> IIRC) is also used to represent the long vowels? Is it some sort of
> non-standard anglo device?  (I'm thinking e.g. of the ball-player Saduhara
> _Oh_ et al.)
Yeah, Oh is an old way of showing long _o_ in the Roman alphabet, as in
the usual English spelling of the traditional Japanese theatrical style
_Noh_.

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