Barry Caplan <bcaplan at i18n dot com> wrote: > For instance, IIRC, Isabella Bird wrote in her (British) English > travelogue in the early Meiji restoration era (1878 AD) of travels to > Yedo (now commonly called "Edo" in the literature, and known by its > modern name to all as "Tokyo"). She called Tokyo "Tokiyo".
As recently as World War II, some major newspapers and wire services in the U.S. were still spelling it "Tokio." -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
