SV: RE: Monkey Business (WDC 297)

[Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr.]

H.W.Fluks at telecom.tno.nl wrote:

> And I nitpickingly correct:
>
> I think you mean Mao. His full name in the
> currently used transcription is Mau Zedong.

No! Mao should AFAIK be written with an O in the end. So the currently used
transcription should be MaO Zedong. The same way the name of the Chinese
capital "Peking" has been changed to "Beijing". The name of the dog-race
"Pekingneser" has AFAIK *not* be renamed to "Beijingneser" though!

Sigvald