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

[W Brewer]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:48 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

>        Peking Tom.
>
No, wait. That should read Peiping Tom. (pei-3 north + phing-1 peace),
the Nationalist name for the PRC name (pei-3 tcing-1 northern capital).
Peiping, Peking, Beijing; Cantonese Bak-7a.ging-1, Bak7a.phing-2; Amoy
Pak-7.kia~-1, Pak-7.peng-2.

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