http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=187 The blog for Opportunity Foundation Thailand and Travel in SE Asia Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=187&cpage=1#comment-74 john badgley Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:12:20 +0000 http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=187#comment-74 No need to change anything, Jack. A marvelous job. Spelling these towns is various and not to worry about due to the "official" changes in names [often including an r to represent the position of the tongue as it sounds a vowel, but not actually an r as Americans pronounce: thus the terrible errors many of us make when trying to sound out official spellings of Burmese names. Linguists have codes to protect against this---but none of us are linguists. No need to change anything, Jack. A marvelous job. Spelling these towns is various and not to worry about due to the “official” changes in names [often including an r to represent the position of the tongue as it sounds a vowel, but not actually an r as Americans pronounce: thus the terrible errors many of us make when trying to sound out official spellings of Burmese names. Linguists have codes to protect against this—but none of us are linguists.

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