Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

dilbert firestorm <scanb31@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Paul L. Madarasz wrote:
>> >I believe some thing similar happened with China's Capital, Beijing 
>> >which was formerly called Peking.
>>
>> I believe that was more a change of Romanization, rather than a change
>> of pronounciation or meaning.
>>   
>I was under the impression that it was China that made preference known 
>or rather insisted on the Beijing usage.

China officially chose "pinyin" as the way of writing Chinese words in
English sometime in the early seventies.  I don't know if that
spelling applies to all languages that use the Roman alphabet, but the
"romanization" term implies such.

I don't know if the romanization used before that (designed by
****tuguese missionaries in the 1700s???) was official, or "just
there".
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Greg Goss, 1989-01-27