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by gcarvalho 610 days ago
And the martial art is jiu-jitsu, not jujutsu. Similar sounding but definitely not “named after”.
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No it's not, but so far the Brazilians are still sticking with the incorrect ~1908 way of writing it.

Standard Japanese pronunciation for "jutsu" does not contain an i, and it's also judo not "jiu-do" that the old system would have called for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu#Etymology