Bills or Beers? Which one sounds better?

[Haji]

Birusu is supposed to be a pun on beer right? So i would go with the name Beers,Because now bills just seems like someone with a speech problem saying beers or beer "bills, bill" I am not trying to sound mean. It just sounds like that to me now.

[JeffJarrett]

Except the point was DB Wiki didn't pull it out of their ass; they(apparently) got it from Japan who pulled it out of Japan's ass.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the DB wikia was using "Bills" long before that Japanese product (I think it was a DS cover or some such thing) using the "Bills" spelling surfaced.

Truth be told, they almost certainly got that spelling from us on Kanzenshuu. When we first reported on the new characters for the movie, we used the spellings "Bils" and "Whis", on the theory that their names were puns on "pilsner" and "whiskey" (hey, we were about 70% right). Then Julian asked Watanabe on Twitter if "pilsner" was the name pun and he said no, so we reverted to "Birusu" until finding out the real source. Anyway, in the meantime the DB wikia started using the spellings "Bills" and "Wiss". I've got no proof, but I always assumed that they just took the spellings we used initially but tried to personalize them a bit by doubling the "l" and "s" (and removing the "h" in "Whis"), then just stuck with those spellings to the bitter end. I mean, what reason is there for the second "s" in "Wiss"?

"Bills" and "Wiss" originally came from Saiyan Island, who were the first English-speaking media to reveal the names of the two new characters: http://www.saiyanisland.com/2012/11/dra ... -new-scan/ Here are Kanzenshuu's first names: http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... 60#p595276

[TheOverlyMadHatter]

Birusu is supposed to be a pun on beer right? So i would go with the name Beers,Because now bills just seems like someone with a speech problem saying beers or beer "bills, bill" I am not trying to sound mean. It just sounds like that to me now.

"Birusu" is actually a pun on the word "Virus". But Toriyama thought it was a pun on "Beer", so when he came up with "Whis", he had "Whiskey" in mind to match that.