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= November 6 =

Select your correct radiotelephony alphabet of su and we kana
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す/ス

 * 1) 寿司のス
 * 2) すずめのス

ゑ/ヱ
Everyone pressing reply to answer 2001:44C8:4510:2F12:A428:487C:964:3868 (talk) 02:26, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) ゑびすのヱ
 * 2) かぎのあるヱ


 * #2 for both, per law. I don't know where you got the first ones. Sushi for su would be a particularly poor choice, as /si/ and /su/ are merged in some parts of Tohoku and Shimane so it could plausibly sound like "獅子のシ". Nardog (talk) 02:48, 6 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Is this like a Japanese spelling alphabet? ゑ/ヱ is basically obsolete in modern Japanese, so I have a hard time finding a situation where specifying it would be meaningful. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 06:11, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Suppose you want to say over the phone in Japanese, "ゑ/ヱ is basically obsolete in modern Japanese". The person at the other end replies, "申し訳ありませんが、最初の部分を綴っていただけますか?" How would you oblige in this situation? --Lambiam 12:02, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The description かぎのあるヱ ("we" with a hook) only works for the katakana character. --Lambiam 12:32, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * It is kind of odd that ヰ gets an actual word that used to be spelled with that kana (のヰ), while ヱ doesn't. ヲ sort of follows ヰ in using historical kana orthography, though it should really be instead of  if one wanted to replicate historical kana orthography. But I guess they didn't want it to be mispronounced. Double sharp (talk) 15:26, 8 November 2023 (UTC)