View Full Version : Beijing: Bay-Jing not Bay-ZZZZZZhing
Penguin
8/17/2008, 12:44 AM
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxm5mLEZZnyTkgBvRIuBsyc7bySg
Good to know. I was pronouncing it wrong. BAY-JING!
Okla-homey
8/17/2008, 08:00 AM
Peking, as in duck. I don't say Par-ee when talking about the capital of France either.
Howzit
8/17/2008, 08:07 AM
Unless you are speaking in mexican. Then it is Vay-hing.
stoopified
8/17/2008, 09:53 AM
Peking, as in duck. I don't say Par-ee when talking about the capital of France either.PEE-KING was my thought.
Chuck Bao
8/17/2008, 01:10 PM
Thais say BUC-KING and rhymes with…
Tulsa_Fireman
8/17/2008, 02:27 PM
SOFA KING
The Germans still call it Peking. I know because I'm a dork for watching Deutsche-Welle TV late nights on Tulsa Cox channel 20.
Jimminy Crimson
8/18/2008, 12:23 AM
They're commies. Does it really matter how we pronounce it? Just call 'em reds.
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