Board Thread:Suggestion Box/@comment-415317-20140916231134/@comment-6697950-20140920133558

Whoops, I removed Aerial by mistake while rearranging the order. Thanks for pointing it out.

For aqueous, the small i indicates that the U sound transits into the I sound before it even ends. It would sound kind of like akwiasu actually, since the way the english W is pronounced is similar to the Japanese U sound. Oh, and I apparently missed a su katakana. Already corrected the mistake.

For the ō sounds, both おう and おお are pronounced the same - a long O sound. The only difference is how the kanji having such a sound is inputted, which is why google usually translates both as ō which is the standard symbol used to denote a long o sound. And the ou variant is actually much more common than the actual oo sound, which is used only for certain words like 遠い（とおい）. On this wiki, we have agreed to use the long vowel marks for unambiguous cases like long a and i, but use the double vowel version for sounds like ou and oo due to their ambiguity.

English naming for the elements is only used in the commands themselves, as UW residents aren't really knowledgeable about English, thus they have named all the elements in Japanese using kanji. Though the official names for all the elements are the English variant, since that's how the system acknowledges them. Though I'm not sure how to handle this case. We do use such a system on DDA, as they are usually called in Japanese, yet have an official Engrish version too.

Anyone else want to share their opinion?