[MorbidBarbie]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

yeah, "Whoa" has always been written in japanese lyrics as "wow"... ayu, b'z, boa... everyone has it written like that. i have no idea why. While we're on the subject why does Namie pronounce "Wo" as "ooh" in "WoWa"?

My Chinese teacher explained that sometimes, if you are like... making an "oooo" sound (oo as in BOO), it will never be spelled that way. That would just be kinda like ohhhh. When I was learning the pinyin (romanized chinese alphabet) uo sounds like a w-o sound, but not like Whoa.. more like a wuh. Maybe it's sort of similar with Japanese? Maybe the sounds in japanese have common spellings like this with certain sounds that they screw things around XD?

Just an idea I had, except..
I don't know what I'm talking about.
8D