Why pick a non-English based spelling system for your country

[W Brewer]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> It's spelled "Bei_ j _ing." Yet, the preferred pronunciation is as
> though the spelling was "Bei_ zh _ing"!    Why?
>
hypergallicism: bay-ZHING just sounds more elegant than BAY-JING. When I
was a kid, a Chinese spy was a Peking Tom.

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