Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:23:40 -0400 From: "Barry A. Popik" Subject: TAKEOVER SPECIAL: Hong Kong or Hongkong? One of these was taken over by China this month: Hong Kong Hongkong HongKong Hong-Kong Hongk'ong. There's a very little bit about this in the Winter 1996 AMERICAN SPEECH, "Transmission Languages and Source Languages of CHinese Brrowings in English" by Andrew J. Moody, pg. 413. I bank at Marine Midland, which is owned by the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Corp., or HSBC. A check of News Abstracts shows: Hong Kong--2,663 hits. Hongkong--86 hits (mostly HSBC). A recent book title is _T'aiwan, Hongk'ong, Mak'ao (=Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao)_ by Chae-gi Hi (1991). It probably should be Hongkong, but Hong Kong is here to stay. Just don't let the Chinese get Hawai'i. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------- A trip to Hong Kong (and the rest of the far east) in the late 1980s changed my life! After looking at the snake specials, I never ate meat again. My mother didn't eat meat. My father ate meat, but not recently (he was in a nursing home the past five years). Anyway, my sister and I have been cleaning up the mess of a family home after the deaths of our parents. I looked in the downstairs freezer, and, uh, it's loaded with steaks....