Re: Bopomofo and pinyin

At 11:17 -0700 20.1.2000, Aidan Grey wrote:
>
>    Aspirated style (ch'ang, hsu) is Wade-Giles. Junggwo is a system I'm
>not familiar with. Pinyin would be Zhongguo, chang, xu, etc.
>
>    Aidan, the former chinese interpreter
Might be the Postal Map method which the English-speaking Foreign Devils
used in pre-W-G days.  It was official for geographical names in Hong Kong
as long as the Crown Colony lasted, and was there popular for transcribing
personal names too -- with some "anomalies" like Li -> Lee, Wu -> Woo --,
especially if you didn't know the bearers' preferred spelling.

>
>    Aidan, the former chinese interpreter
Guei Ai-tan (WG)?


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