Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

On Tue, 13 May 2008 17:17:13 -0700 (PDT), Snidely
<Snidely.too@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, perhaps among other things:

>> get closer to English speaker's pronunciation.  Thus we have Peiping*,
>> Peking, and Beijing.  So what *IS* that middle consonant?
>
>Depends on whether the Em****er is in his northern palace, or down in
>Nanking.
>
>/dps

Depends on where the Em****er has his Em****ium.

(In the Romanization used with Peking and Nanking, the "k" had the
/dj/ sound.  I forget which one it was -- Wade-Giles? -- and don't
have the mojo right now to search for it.  It wasn't Wade-Giles, come
to think of it.)
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