Zhongtong bus Company

[Tom Zurinskas]

The freedictionary.com has 3 pronunciatons of Beijing

USA = ~Baezzheeng  (~ae as in "sundae" ~ee as in "see", ~zzh as in "measure" ~mezher with double z showing stressed second syllable)

UK = ~Baezheeng (same as above with stress on first syllable)

speaker icon = ~Baejjeeng (~j as in "jump" with stress on second syllable.

m-w.com =  ~Baejjeeng.


Tom Zurinskas, from Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 8.
Free English-based phonetic converter, URL and text , at truespel.com


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> Or "BeiZing," as most news readers and younger folk pronounce it now,
> like FalluZah, NaZaf, EliZa, etc. It always surprised my intro
> students to hear, listening carefully, a Mandarin speaker pronounce
> Beijing.
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> Herb
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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> > Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: Zhongtong bus Company
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> > At 2:27 AM +0000 3/1/11, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> >>I rode on a "Zhongtong" bus in the Bahamas yesterday. It was
> >>interesting to see "zh" in tradspel. I assume it's the same sound
> >>as in "measure" ~mezher. The bus is made in China.
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> > Probably not. It's more likely [dZ] as in Beijing or Zhou (as
> > represented by different Romanization traditions). Mandarin Chinese
> > doesn't actually have the fricative of "measure", as I understand.
> >
> > LH
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