Posted by Robert Hill on March 24, 2003 at 20:50:50 from 195.92.168.169 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Kan(g)chenjunga posted by Robert Dilley on March 24, 2003 at 18:40:05:
Another transliteration of Pekin(g) / Beijing that was used at one time
was Peiping. I think there's some essay by Bertrand Russell in which he
complains about it in passing.