In my mind the name is Ei<tab completion>

We have a major Vietnamese population here, so there's Vietnamese writing on all the buses etc.

Vietnamese writing is just Latin with diacritics

What is ¸ ?

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@3to5businessdays Most romanization is based on the language itself rather than being a transliteration of kana orthography

That's a good thing in theory, but it can confuse people

And of course, reading is a highly overlearned activity and using an unfamiliar script bypasses a lot of the learning you've done, so it's harder to read...

laɪk ɪf aɪ roʊt ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ ɪn ˌaɪ pi ˈeɪ

@3to5businessdays Um, it seems unlikely to me that you'd want to commit enough time and mental effort

Who? Um, people? :-)

I don't know.

Sure.

So you don't think it's a reduced pronunciation.

It's very easy for the /e/ to drop out for me, and for me to still think about it as though it's there

So it's easy for me to imagine that it's a reduced pronunciation

I think I'll delete my answer, though, and research that

I was too quick to assume

Sure.

Yeah.

@3to5businessdays It turns out the assumption I made was wrong!

I edited my answer and fixed it. :-)

And undeleted.

Apparently.

It's still very easy for me to imagine it as a reduced pronunciation!

kakijun.jp/main/jis2004.html

I'm not really knowledgeable enough to talk about why they made the changes they did

@Anthony Well, verbs ending in う used to end in ふ. So 言ふ and the like.

Did you want to share any context at all for まふ?

Let's look this up...

When I look up words spelled おう in 日本国語大辞典, I see the old spellings わう and あふ and あう and をふ and おふ listed

Of course, what I just wrote is based on the orthography

The cabinet announcement lists あう・あふ・わう・はう → おう

The actual language itself undergoes sound changes, and after these changes the orthography may be changed to reflect them (or not)