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Thread #132089   Message #2988177
Posted By: Howard Jones
16-Sep-10 - 03:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Foreign pronunciations: inconsistencies
Subject: RE: BS: Foreign pronunciations: inconsistencies
Michael, you've rather proved my point - after years of calling it "Peking" we were told it should now be called "Beijing", with a soft j. Closer to the actual name, but still wrong.