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Topic	Words that aren't spelled at all like they sound.
Ricemills 03/13/24 6:15:18 AM #60:	Dark_Arbron posted... Cao Cao and Genghis Khan arent English names either but they are their English approximations, so at a glance youd think Cao Cao is Cow Cow, when its actually Tsao Tsao, and Genghis Khan if I recall is closer to Chingiss Han, though Im not super confident on that. Yup. English speaker usually assume Cao is pronounced with hard C, and people made joke of Cao Pi's name because of it. Ts'ao Ts'ao is from Wade-Gilles spelling, an attempt to romanized chinese letters. --- You have the right to remain silent. Anything you posted will be misquoted, then be used against you. http://error1355.com/ce/Ricemills.html <cite>Ricemills posted [p:979342182] in Words that... [t:80719598]...</cite> <quote>Dark_Arbron posted... </cite><quote>Cao Cao and Genghis Khan arent English names either but they are their English approximations, so at a glance youd think Cao Cao is Cow Cow, when its actually Tsao Tsao, and Genghis Khan if I recall is closer to Chingiss Han, though Im not super confident on that.</quote>Yup.English speaker usually assume Cao is pronounced with hard C, and people made joke of Cao Pi's name because of it.Ts'ao Ts'ao is from Wade-Gilles spelling, an attempt to romanized chinese letters. --- You have the right to remain silent. Anything you posted will be misquoted, then be used against you.http://error1355.com/ce/Ricemills.html</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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