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stoutfellow ([personal profile] stoutfellow) wrote2013-05-26 06:15 am
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A Parenthetical I Never Expected to See

From Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives & Evolutionary History:
("Peking" is the Wade-Giles spelling of "Beijing")
I guess pinyin has been in widespread use for long enough....

(In case you're wondering, the line appears in the midst of a discussion of when and where dogs were domesticated.)