[lg policy] China's Zhou Youguang, father of Pinyin writing system, dies aged 111

[Dave Sayers]

"We spent three years developing Pinyin. People made fun of us, joking that it had 
taken us a long time to deal with just 26 letters," he told the BBC in 2012.

More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38621697

Dave

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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
dave.sayers at cantab.net | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers

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