Editing Metasyntactic variable (section)

===Japanese===
In Japanese, the words {{Transliteration|ja|hoge}} (ほげ)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/hoge|title=hogeの意味・使い方 - 英和辞典 Weblio 辞書|website=ejje.weblio.jp}}</ref> and {{Transliteration|ja|fuga}} (ふが) are commonly used, with other common words and variants being {{Transliteration|ja|piyo}} (ぴよ), {{Transliteration|ja|hogera}} (ほげら), and {{Transliteration|ja|hogehoge}} (ほげほげ).<ref name="ja">[[:ja:メタ構文変数|メタ構文変数]] {{in lang|ja}}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=September 2017}} The origin of {{Transliteration|ja|hoge}} as a metasyntactic variable is not known, but it is believed to date to the early 1980s.<ref name="ja" />