Saturday, August 23, 2008
The pronunciation of "Beijing"
As someone who spent nearly a year living in Beijing - and not being Chinese, although married to a wonderful lady from that part of the world - I've been annoyed at the tendency to pronounce "Beijing" like "Beige-Ing". It is (basically) "Bay-Jing", with the second syllable starting with a hard "J" like "Juice", versus the drawled "Ge" in "Beige".
One would think that Bob Costas would have figured this out by now...
One would think that Bob Costas would have figured this out by now...