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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 2)

Note 443 — LXXXIV. COURAGE TESTED.

Herbert Allen Giles translation

Besides the all-important aspirate, this name is pronounced in a different tone from the first-mentioned “Tung;” and is moreover expressed in writing by a totally different character. To a Chinese ear, the two words are as unlikely to be confounded as Brown and Jones. return to text

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