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Any idea what まゆり means in this sentence ? I can't find anything in my dictionaries that fits. It's from a hand-written letter so I could have misread the characters, or perhaps it's a spelling error?

１９日、中之島公園、いろんな所を一人でまゆりましたネ。

中之島公園 【なかのしまこうえん】"Nakanoshima Kouen", a small park somewhere in Osaka.

Looks like ゆ⇒わ to me.

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Ooooh why didn't I think of that? Thank you!

Quote:回る 【まわる】 (v5r,vi) (1) to turn, to revolve, (2) to visit several places, (P)

I'm glad it made sense to you Fabrice, but for those of us not quite so far along in our studies, is this a common syllable transformation? Or does this happen in a particular dialect or something?

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No, I just misread a hand-written form of the syllable わ. It was really written まわる. But in both わ and れ the horizontal short stroke and the third curvy stroke can be drawn in one swoop, starting as if you drew a "z". And then there's an even shorter form that looks almost as ゆ. Here's a quick sketch on my graphics tablet showing わ, れ and ね :

Aha, thanks for explaining. JimmySeal, I am mildly astounded that you were able to diagnose that remotely!

Well once you read enough Japanese you start to predict what's probably going to come next, just like you'll surely have no plobrem figuring out what went wronq with this sentence I'm typing here. From there it was just a matter of figuring out that handwritten わ can look a lot like ゆ.

True that, plus it just makes sense that you'd walk around alone checking out the park. Just don't bring along a blue tarp!

I find handwritten Japanese to be a bear to read unless people studied 習字、しゅうじ. Seems the rules of good writing go out the window at some point. True of all languages, perhaps. In my classes I notice a trend of writing the small 'a' as a number 2, but more like the large cursive 'Q', as in print, not the circular 'a'. Wonder if that came from cell phones and chats...