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ColinHowell (Offline)
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04-23-2011, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by masaegu View Post
Wow, so it seems. That is crazy!

Give me a few minutes.
Ah, it's a Touhou song. It must be a play on the name of the game character which the song is related to; her name is written てゐ and has been romanised as both "Tei" and "Tewi". From the page for her on the English Touhou wiki:

"The 'wi' (ゐ) in Tewi is a kana that was removed from the official Japanese language use by the post-war government in 1954. In present day Japanese, her name is pronounced 'Tei'. ... "