HP TouchPad Available for United States, Europe and Canada
HP today announced that the Wi-Fi version of HP TouchPad will be available in the United States on July 1.…
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ゐ, in hiragana, or ヰ in katakana, is a nearly obsolete Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. It is presumed that ゐ represented [wi] ( listen) and that ゐ and い indicated different pronunciations until somewhere between the Kamakura period and the Taishō period when they both came to be pronounced [i]. Along with the kana for we, (ゑ in hiragana, ヱ in katakana), this kana was deemed obsolete in Japanese in 1946, and replaced with い and イ. It is now rare in everyday usage; in onomatopoeia and foreign words, the katakana form ウィ (U-[small-i]) is preferred.
The kana still sees some modern-day usage, such as the spelling of Nikka Whiskey, which is written “ニッカウヰスキー” (nikka uwisukī), the name of the comedy duo Yoiko is written “よゐこ” (yowiko), and a character in the video game series Touhou Project has the name “てゐ” (Tewi). Katakana ヰ is sometimes written with a dakuten, ヸ, to represent a /vi/ sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a convenient way to do this. It is far…
HP today announced that the Wi-Fi version of HP TouchPad will be available in the United States on July 1.…
This tablet PC is said to be iPad rival. Known as BlackPad or Cobalt, said to have 8.9-inch display, with…