I think "mai" and "may" are phonetically equivalent in most Romance and Germanic languages. But spelling preferences can still be localized, so even this difference is worth looking out for. All we know is that the month name writer wrote "yong", not how they pronounced it.
I agree though, that if this is an occasional misspelling, it might be valuable for us to also track the most likely standard form.
What stops me from doing this, is that the sequence as a whole is nonstandard. Once you start allowing that yong = jong = joing =... , you might do the same for different month names as well. Maybe "augst" is a misspelling of "august" and so on...
I agree though, that if this is an occasional misspelling, it might be valuable for us to also track the most likely standard form.
What stops me from doing this, is that the sequence as a whole is nonstandard. Once you start allowing that yong = jong = joing =... , you might do the same for different month names as well. Maybe "augst" is a misspelling of "august" and so on...