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Re:Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, ju... by runn1ng on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @09:49AM (#6172766)
Sorry, it is written like that in my language and I didn't realize it's wrong in English; I corrected that
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Re:Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, ju... by yareally on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @09:56AM (#6172811)
Both names have been correct at some point in history. In some areas, both are still used, depending on whom one asks and who is doing the naming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Postal_Map_Romanization

http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/11/chinese_trans...

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Re:Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, ju... by tehwalrus on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:07AM (#6172894)
The only time I've heard it used in English recently is at Chinese restaurants, where the popular dish is still called "Peking Duck".

Beijing is much closer to the Mandarin pronouciation, bei3 jing1, meaning "north capital." (there is also a Nanjing, "south capital.")

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Re:Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, ju... by yareally on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:14AM (#6172947)
Similar to Beijing, Nanjing was once pronounced as "Nanking" in the West. Some historical events, such as the Nanking Incident[1], still reference that pronunciation to avoid confusion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Incident

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Re:Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, ju... by GotAnyMegadeth on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:00AM (#6172839)
No need to apologise! I learnt something
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