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So everyone will have to hire MIT, Pekin U, Tokyo U or Berlin U graduates?

The most egregious example of this is the crossing in Raffles Place from Pekin street over Telok Ayer to the indoor hawker centre.

In polish Beijing is just Pekin after all those years.

Sadly pekin.com is squatted but then what isn't.

Supreme Court, but it rarely accepts cases.[21] With good behavior, he could be released in less than 24 years, when he would be 85.[22] Ciavarella, inmate number 15008-067, is serving his sentence at Federal Correctional Institution, Pekin in Pekin, Illinois.

In an Ideal world we would all just leave names in their original script (Which is the convention in Asian academia for non-Asian names), but we don't live in such a world; We live in a world where English speakers in the Midwest struggle to pronounce the foreign names of their own hometowns (See Pekin IL).

Calcutta, Pondicherry and Pekin were "best attempts" by Europeans to transcribe the sounds from the locals that were relayed to them by illiterate sailors.

How about "pekin", it's the name of a duck and suggest "peek in" to me.

The capital city of China is called "Beijing" in Mandarin and "Pekin" in Cantonese (as I understand it).

I knew the names "Pekin" and "Pondicherry" were (bad) attempts at Romanizing the local pronunciation.

Such as that the ethanol came from a industrial ethanol plant in Pekin, Illinois which also made ethanol for fuel use.

Is Madrid louder than London, Athens, new Dehli, Los Angeles or Pekin?

Tell him hello from me (TC Pekin), I always liked talking to him during some down time, and the feeling was mutual.