Father Steve has it right - arrogance is the wrong word. It is simply usage. If my (leaky) memory serves me right, Peking is from the ?Cantonese dialect while Beijing is ?Mandarin. Or it maybe the difference between pinyin and other transliteration systems. Whatever. Someone did tell me and I, with my usual knack, managed to lose the details somewhere.

Anyway, I have learned something from this thread. Drew Barrymore has said something that someone considered immortal. Ay di me!


The idiot also known as Capfka ...