{"id":8226,"date":"2022-08-17T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T01:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2022-08-17T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:36:52","slug":"atomic-enema-gwoyeu-romatzyh-spellings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2022\/atomic-enema-gwoyeu-romatzyh-spellings\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Enema Gwoyeu Romatzyh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/atomic_enema.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/atomic_enema.jpg\" alt=\"box for a product with the English name of Atomic Enema\" width=\"1252\" height=\"939\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/atomic_enema.jpg 1252w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/atomic_enema-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/atomic_enema-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/atomic_enema-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/atomic_enema-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1252px) 100vw, 1252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking: &#8220;Man, look at the weird romanization in that address!&#8221; ;-)<\/p>\n<p>Say what you will against the <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/category\/writing-systems\/gwoyeu-romatzyh\/\">Gwoyeu Romatzyh<\/a> romanization system for Mandarin (or &#8220;GR&#8221; for short) &#8212; its quirkiness, its unnecessary complications, <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2018\/reasons-gwoyeu-romatzyh-never-caught-on-part-39\/\">its counter-intuitiveness for those who don&#8217;t know its rules<\/a> (much more so than with Hanyu Pinyin). But at least in the few instances where it&#8217;s still seen in the wild, it&#8217;s usually spelled correctly. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the case here. <\/p>\n<p>The address for the manufacturer, the Health Chemical Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., is given as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No.12, <strong>Yeou<\/strong>-4th Rd., <strong>Ta-Chia Yowshy<\/strong> Ind. Dist.<br \/>\n&#22823;&#30002;&#24037;&#26989;&#21312;&#24188;&#22235;&#36335;12&#34399;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>yeou<\/strong> = Hanyu Pinyin y&#466;u &#8212; misspelled GR (should be &#8220;yow,&#8221; which is &#8220;y&#242;u&#8221; in HP); this is all the more strange given that the company gets &#8220;yow&#8221; correct elsewhere in the same line<\/li>\n<li><strong>ta <\/strong>= HP d&#224; &#8212; essentially correct Wade-Giles (not GR)<\/li>\n<li><strong>chia <\/strong>= HP ji&#462; &#8212; essentially correct Wade-Giles (not GR)<\/li>\n<li><strong>yow <\/strong>= HP y&#242;u &#8212; correct GR<\/li>\n<li><strong>shy <\/strong>= HP sh&#299; &#8212; misspelled GR (should be syh)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is definitely misspelled Gwoyeu Romatzyh rather than a different system (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/romanization\/mps2\/index.html\">MPS2<\/a>, which is often seen in the boondocks of Taiwan). <\/p>\n<p>And the city name is given as &#8220;Taichung,&#8221; which is <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/romanization\/wadegiles\/bastardized.html\">bastardized Wade-Giles<\/a> (for what would be spelled &#8220;Taizhong&#8221; in Hanyu Pinyin). But since that is the standard spelling in Taiwan, one can&#8217;t blame the company for this. <\/p>\n<p>And at least the company didn&#8217;t get &#8220;4th&#8221; wrong, which is more than can be said for the Taichung City Government, as shown by a sign near the factory. (From Google Street View.)<\/p>\n<p>The source of the other misspellings will likely remain enema-migmatic. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/taichung_you_4nd_rd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/taichung_you_4nd_rd.png\" alt=\"Street sign reading &#039;You 4rd Rd.&#039;\" width=\"511\" height=\"865\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/taichung_you_4nd_rd.png 511w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/taichung_you_4nd_rd-177x300.png 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking: &#8220;Man, look at the weird romanization in that address!&#8221; ;-) Say what you will against the Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization system for Mandarin (or &#8220;GR&#8221; for short) &#8212; its quirkiness, its unnecessary complications, its counter-intuitiveness for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2022\/atomic-enema-gwoyeu-romatzyh-spellings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,133,32,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-gwoyeu-romatzyh","category-mandarin","category-romanization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8239,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions\/8239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}