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In many places Tewi's name has made the change to just Tei, but in many other places she's still called Tewi. Should this page be retitled and the address moved to one that ends with Tei_Inaba in the url? Maybe all of the instances of her name should be changed to just one or the other, instead of calling her either one depending on what page it is?

Well, the romanization of ゐ is not quite so well-defined, owing to it being obsolete. It's pronounciation doesn't seem to be all that clear to all Japanese speakers, either, but tends to be just i, I guess. However, it's written form definitely isn't your normal i, which is い, and it does appear in the w-row of the gozyûon, along with を (wo, o in Hepburn) わ (wa) and ゑ (we, also obsolete). Zun's romanizations don't follow any set standard, but seem to be on the wâpuro side, which probably would favor "wi". In Imperishable Night she's Tewi, in Perfect Memento she's Tei. Still, I can't really agree with the statement "correctly her name should be written 'Tei'", because the standardized Nihon-siki and Kunrei-siki romanizations both define it as "wi". I think it's "wi" even in Hepburn, even though I'm not 100 % sure of that. Neither form is explicitly wrong as such, but I think Tewi is the more correct form. --130.232.131.47 07:59, 4 May 2007 (PDT)
ZUN is rather inconsistent with the romanization. In games before PoFV it's mostly wapuro, but it switches to Nihon-siki from PoFV on. For instance, you have both Shinki and Sikieiki, and Yuka and Akyu would be Yuuka and Akyuu in wapuro. - Pilpsie
According to the page, the ゐ wi sound was dropped in 1946. Thus, when Gensôkyô was sealed (1884, about sixty years before) and lost contact with Japan, the sound was still in use. Also, there is a hypothesis that she may be many centuries old (actually, if she was indeed the rabbit that appears in "the Naked Hare of Inaba", then she was already a youkai by 680 AD), so perhaps Tewi herself has been saying her name as "Tewi" for quite long... Inari, the mischievous fox =^·^= 03:27, 11 August 2007 (PDT)
Tewi seems to be rather underpowered. I would rate her in the A-class opponents (with S being the highest), her age, experience and knack of making pranks would make her a very dangerous, and unpredictable opponent, and with her unbelievable luck everything that could possibly go wrong to her opponent can and will happen. 121.96.114.241 20:41, 8 August 2008 (UTC)Kar2n!
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