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A comment on Zhou Youguang, creator of the Pinyin writing system, has died. Parent comment
To add to the confusion, Taiwan seems to have had their own adapation of wade-giles between 2002-2008 called Tongyong Pinyin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongyong_Pinyin
The moral of the story is - when asking for directions in Taiwan, don't rely on the street signs much for pronunciation :D
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To add to the confusion, Taiwan seems to have had their own adapation of wade-giles between 2002-2008 called Tongyong Pinyin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongyong_Pinyin
The moral of the story is - when asking for directions in Taiwan, don't rely on the street signs much for pronunciation :D