Hi!
Mark J. Reed writes:
> To go back to the subject in the header for a second - am I correct
> that at the time of the creation of the romanization "Peking", the
> name was actually pronounced [pe'k_jiN], but then the
> diphthongalization and palatalization went further and now we have
> [pej'ts\iN] ?
I forgot to mention: the stress on the second syllable is probably due
to misinterpretation of the Mandarin tones. Both syllables are
stressed in Mandarin, but higher pitch on the second might indicate
stress to speakers of whatever other language.
**Henrik