Talk:Pyongyang

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This should be moved to 'Pyongyang': the longer spelling - who uses it? - looked like a mistake & I corrected it at North Korea. Ro Thorpe 21:14, 30 October 2009 (UTC) - Ah, the Revised Romanisation...not, it seems, a massive hit... Ro Thorpe 22:56, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

The background is that "yeo" is a phoneme (and letter) different from "yo" (and "ye-o"): "Yeo" is pronounced similar to the "yo" in "Yoghurt", while "yo" is more like in "Yoga". And the main reasoning behind the revised romanization is that you can type it using only letters of the English alphabet. --Daniel Mietchen 01:48, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

The same is true of 'Pyongyang', and it's one letter less. This has all the hallmarks of a misguided reform. I looked in the Wicked Pedia: [1]. Ro Thorpe 02:28, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

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