On Jun 16, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Nicholas Bodley wrote:
>
> There was a report this morning on National Public Radio from
> Hamtramck,
> Mich. Surely enough, it was consistently [mis]pronounced
> "Hamtramick"...
>
Me, I wince whenever I hear newsreaders refer to Peking as "Beizhing"
or talk about "Tianannaman Square."