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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? Buffalo Shrdlu #170826 10/23/07 04:52 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh [Y]ou mean Peking? No, I meant Peiping. But, seriously, the j in Beijing is pronounced like the j in jingoistic, rather than the z in (some pronunciations of) azure or the second g in garage. This is similar to the pronunciation of César Chávez as /si:zɚ#ʃavɛz/ (Caesar Shavez) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wikipedia has a nice rundown (with all the usual ranting caveats) about how the form Peking is based on a 500 year old pronunciation that the French recorded in Latin letters. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? wsim 10/23/07 03:35 AM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? of troy 10/23/07 03:47 AM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? wsim 10/23/07 03:57 AM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? tsuwm 10/23/07 04:07 AM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? AnnaStrophic 10/23/07 01:18 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? tsuwm 10/23/07 01:39 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? AnnaStrophic 10/23/07 01:47 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? dalehileman 10/23/07 02:57 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? zmjezhd 10/23/07 04:07 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? Buffalo Shrdlu 10/23/07 04:36 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? zmjezhd 10/23/07 04:52 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? Buffalo Shrdlu 10/23/07 05:23 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? zmjezhd 10/23/07 05:31 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? Zed 10/23/07 11:28 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? wsim 10/24/07 04:52 AM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? BranShea 10/24/07 08:41 AM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? zmjezhd 10/24/07 12:14 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? BranShea 10/24/07 12:53 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? Zed 10/24/07 08:06 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? tsuwm 10/24/07 08:19 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? Jackie 10/25/07 02:34 AM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? nancyk 10/25/07 05:58 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? of troy 10/25/07 06:25 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? Faldage 10/25/07 11:02 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? themilum 10/25/07 11:23 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? of troy 10/26/07 03:27 AM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? Faldage 10/26/07 08:48 AM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? BranShea 10/26/07 09:00 AM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? Jackie 10/24/07 03:14 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? zmjezhd 10/24/07 03:18 PM Re: How Do You Call People From Different Countries Or Cities? Myridon 10/24/07 05:01 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,369 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (A C Bowden), 874 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 22 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,561 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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