Re: [Lingo] Differences between 取り消し, 取消 and 取消し

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com>]

2009/6/22 Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung16plus@example.com>:
>
> From what I've researched[1], 取消 is widely used before 1945,
> and 取り消し is the de facto standard nowadays.

Well, not just "de facto". It's what's pushed by 文科省 and its
predecessors. Regularization of okurigana was part of the post-1945
writing reforms.

> I've also googled the three words[2] but the result didn't help much:
> Each search returns roughly 10 million hit. It is not the habit of
> the how Japanese use the okurigana in this case but issue is that,
> google sees that as the same word, no?
>
> [1] http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%80%81%E3%82%8A%E4%BB%AE%E5%90%8D
> [2] http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%8E%E6%82%E8%8F%C1%82%B5&lr=lang_ja
>     http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%8E%E6%8F%C1&lr=lang_ja
>     http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%8E%E6%8F%C1%82%B5&lr=lang_ja

Erm. Try again with quotation marks (put %22 before and after the q
strings);

"取消し" 2,220,000
"取消"   5,840,000
"取り消し" 10,800,000

Similar results are found by checking in Google's "Japanese Web N-gram
Corpus" (http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/docs/LDC2009T08/README.utf8.english)

取消し  871,386
取消    1,744,416
取り消し  3,656,352

Jim

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Jim Breen
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