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According to [the answers here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/782/1587)
and [this chat
post](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/26044041#26044041)

> there's one sound in Japanese which is somewhere between L and R, though
> probably closer to R.

  * Luffy/Ruffy (One Piece)
  * Lio/Rio (Kara no Kyoukai)

2 of the Vocaloids are the twins Rin and Len, but given the above, their names
could be Rin and Ren, Lin and Len, or even Lin and Ren.

So where did it become known that Rin's and Len's names have different first
letters, as opposed to the alternatives that I mentioned?


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Where did it become known that Rin's and Len's names have different first letters?


The [earliest archived
revision](https://web.archive.org/web/20071223223624/http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv02.jsp#)
of [Crypton's page for the
Kagamines](http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv02.jsp) that
reveals details about them has their names in both Latin script and in
Japanese.

[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zIkll.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zIkll.png)

That revision is from 3 Dec 2007, which is shortly before they were actually
first sold later that same month.

So I guess the answer to your question is that it was known to people pretty
much from the very beginning.


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