Zhongtong bus Company

[Herb Stahlke]

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.

Herb

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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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.
>>
> 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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