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Thread #132089   Message #2988030
Posted By: MGM·Lion
16-Sep-10 - 12:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Foreign pronunciations: inconsistencies
Subject: RE: BS: Foreign pronunciations: inconsistencies
Howard ~~ I have lived for a while in Beijing and my first wife worked there for a couple of years. The natives there pronounce it as we do: Bay-djing~~ note that the J is hard as in Jack or Jazz, not soft as in French Je or as in the famous Russian dancer transliterated as Nijinsky, as some smartarses seem for some reason to imagine is correct.

~Michael~