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Why is Typhoon Neoguri sometimes referred to in Japanese as "ノグリー", and not as
"ネオグリー"?

The English language Wikipedia's disambiguation page for [Typhoon
Neoguri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Neoguri) mentions that it used
to be referred to in English as "Noguri", but that was back in 2002, and
there's been another Typhoon Neoguri between then and now.

Is it because Japanese has a commonly used transliteration of the Korean word
for "Raccoon dog"
([너구리](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EB%84%88%EA%B5%AC%EB%A6%AC))?
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Why is Typhoon Neoguri sometimes referred to as "ノグリー"?
My assumption would be that neoguri is one way of romanizing the hangul 너구리,
but that the pronunciation is closer to "noguri." Given the tendency of
katakana to go with pronunciation, it would be ノグリー. Listen to the Korean
[here](http://www.forvo.com/word/%EB%84%88%EA%B5%AC%EB%A6%AC/#ko).
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