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[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu>wrote:

> "BeiZing," as most news readers and younger folk pronounce it


It's not only WRT Chinese, it's not only the young, and it's not even recent
or even merely an AmE thing. Remember the PTV special, at least a
quarter-century or more ago, re the old British Raj? The narrator, himself a
late-middle-aged native-speaker of BrE, insisted upon pronouncing "Raj" as
"Ra[Z]"!

May his soul burn in hell! The romanization of Devanagari is based upon the
pronunciation of the ENGLISH version of the Latin alphabet, for God's
bleeping sake!

The motherbleeper used to make me stone *crazy*!

Speaking of this sort of thing, I've begun to heard BE-speakers saying
"boo[Z]ie" in place of the "standard" - so to speak - "boo[dZ]ie."

But, what can you do?

May God have mercy upon our souls.

--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to come
from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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