Re: Cants

Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

> Staving Andreas Johansson:
>
> >Your Majesty, should you have the extremely good taste to be lurking on
> this
> >list, would you deign to enlighten you most humble servant as to why you
> chose
> >the form 'Emperor Norton' rather than 'Emperor Joshua', after the fashion
> of
> >your imperial brethren?
>
> The only head of state in the world who is currently referred to as an
> Emperor (Nihon no Tenno) is never referred to by his name during his reign.
> In his lifetime he is called simply "His Majesty the Emperor" (Tenno heika,
> and posthumously his regnal title. The late "Emperor Hirohito" is now
> referred to as Shouwa Tennou, and the current emperor will be known
> posthumously as Heisei Tennou.
But when Norton I assumed the title, there were rather a few Emperors within
the Western world, who unfailingly were and are refered to as "Emperor [given
name]".

Is there a distinction between _tenno_ and _tennou_; I assume they both
spell /tenno:/?

                                                         Andreas

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