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Which is grammatically correct? matcha or maccha?

In my opinion, according to its hiragana representation, it should be written
as maccha rather than matcha.

Is there any rule about romaji writing convention I missed here?
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word-choice words rōmaji
matcha versus maccha
Short answer: `matcha` is correct. I don't know about `maccha` being
represented by any official romanization system, though this is actually the
way that the word would be entered in most Japanese input systems, a so-called
Wāpuro rōmaji or kana spelling.

Long answer: There are different romanization systems, for instance Hepburn
romanization, which would lead to `matcha`, or the Kunrei-shiki system or the
Nihon-shiki system, which both lead to `mattya`. It really depends on which
romanization system you want to follow. Also be aware that there are variants
of the romanization systems that make additions to the romanization styles.

The way romanization of the
[geminate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geminate#Japanese "Gemination in
Japanese") consonants following the sokuon っ is the rule that you have to look
out for in the romanization system of your choice.

For a good list of romanization systems, see [this wikipedia
page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese "Romanization of
Japanese"). Note that there are standardizations for the Wāpuro rōmaji, such
as JIS X 4063:2000, but these are by definition methods of input and
explicitly not methods of romanization.
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