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2nd Trimester
OiOi?
I ordered an OiOi diaper bag from gilt today for only $60 and am so excited about it! I want to tell everyone about my good deal and I realized I have no idea how to pronounce it!!!
I know this is probably a stupid question but how do you pronounce OiOi?
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Re: OiOi?
That sounds like what my DS2 says when he says the dogs name, Oreo. lol
ETA: Well if it is we we than that does not sound like anything DS says for oreo.
I googled it for both yours and my info!
"OIOI" had to be pronounced "marui" instead of "oioi"...
...which makes no sense to me...
In Japanese "??(??? / marui)" means "Round", so I do understand the "O".
Actually - it still makes no bloody sense to me. Maybe it's marui, times two? round and round? Dunno.
::::opens mouth and inserts foot::::
Awwww...! Too adorable!
It's member only but it's free to join, they have awesome deals on a range of things. They sell housewares, clothes, shoes, kids/baby stuff, etc... They have different deals every week. If you want you can join under mine, you get a $25 credit for every person that you refer and they buy something.
https://www.gilt.com/invite/amandamharrelson
I tried to google it too and couldn't find anything helpful! I assume it is we we but I'm still not sure.
Here's what Wiki says about it:
The company's name (??) is a combination of the name of its predecessor's parent company "Maru-ni" (??) and the name of its president "Ao-i" (??). The name of the department store is customarily written in Japanese as "???", in katakana lettering.
The department store's famously ambiguous present-day logo is a symbol resembling "?I?I", and read "marui". The Japanese symbol "?" (not to be confused with the Roman alphabet "O" or "o") is read "maru", meaning "circle" or "zero". The symbol "I" ostensibly represents the numeral "1", which can be read "i" in Japanese (note that the Roman alphabet letter "I" is also the Romanized representation of the Japanese syllable "?", a third visual pun).
Despite being read as numerals, the symbol is written "OIOI" in Roman alphabet letters on the company's website, though the address of the website itself is "www.0101.co.jp". The "?I" in the logo is repeated, partly for aesthetics and also as an inference to the "0101" ending of the phone number all Marui department stores.