Indian TV news anchor fired after calling Xi Jinping 'Eleven'

[W Brewer]

The Guardian:  Newsreader mistakes Chinese president's name for Roman
numerals following his visit to India to boost economic ties.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/indian-tv-news-anchor-chinese-president-xi-jinping-eleven,
Friday 19 September 2014 09.52 BST
WB: I think of him as Mr [z-eye], associating Xi with the fourteenth letter
of the Greek alphabet. FWIW, the upper-case XI resembles the Chinese
character for 3. (For Scrabble purposes, best pronounce it lower-case
[z-eye].)
BTW, there are five different Chinese surnames romanized as Xi (Wade-Giles
Hsi).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_(surname).

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