Zhongtong bus Company

[Tom Zurinskas]

These words "beijing and raja" are spelled with a "j".  In English there should be no problem saying them as they appear with the "j" (as in "jam" ~jam).


For "raja" m-w.com speaker says ~raaju (~aa as in "Saab", ~j as in "jam", ~u as in "up")



thefreedictionary.com speakers say

UK says for Raja (initial cap)  ~Raahhaa (~h as in "hat" is doubled to show a stressed second syllable)

speaker icon says ~raaju (same as m-w.com)

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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> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:43:23 -0500
> From: hwgray at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Zhongtong bus Company
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Wilson Gray
> Subject: Re: Zhongtong bus Company
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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Paul Johnston wrote:
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> > "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
> -----
> 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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