The Inventor of the Numeral Type for China By the Use of Which Illiterate Chines
The Inventor of the Numeral Type for China By the Use of Which Illiterate Chines
C F Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming
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Murray's absence, bade his servant go and buy five catties of Niu Jow, but pronounced it Yoo, so instead of a good piece of beef, the man brought a large lump of suet, which was strictly correct, but very trying to a hungry man. Sir Harry Parkes told me how he had once ordered, for Lord Elgin, a large supply of (I think) potatoes, and after a most irritating delay, received a huge consignment of crabs ! The difference between many of the Chinese dialects is so great that the people of different... Provinces literally cannot understand one another's speech. Those who can read and write have recourse to slates, and write theii conversation. Others who have acquired the atrocious patois called Pigeon (or Business) English, talk that. HOW TO MARK A FIFTH TONE 99 NOTE. Although Mr. Murray lays stress on the point that One Version of the Scriptures printed at Peking in the Northern Mandarin dialect can be read in all the Southern Mandarin Provinces, yet in view of the fact that some of the latter have a fifth Tone, and also a much larger number of Sounds than the 408 of Peking, it seems to some of Mr.
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