Local Penang Hokkien Song

[niuc]

Sorry, I just visited the website and found out that it was 鍾靈 ciong1-ling5 (as mentioned by Hong).

[Eng Wai]

Strange though I think I have heard ciong ling and tiong ling roughly frequently.

Will check with my other Hokkien spekang peers to see how they pronounce it.

Later

[hong]

with no dict around ,people come out any sound they like.Do you think people in Penang know how to pronunce 恆毅school hing5gi7?

[niuc]

Hong, we usually read 毅 as ge7. This site http://home.kimo.com.tw/profliim/HARNJI-YM/zh4S.htm gives both ge7 and gi7 as the literary pronunciation (wendu). Is there any difference in their usage (when to use ge7 and when to use gi7)?

[hong]

My dict put gi7 as wendu ,ge7 as baidu 。So words llike 毅力 is baidu ge-lat 。
毅然 in wendu gi-jian because it is a word from 三國志。Also 嚴毅 in 漢書,
剛毅 in 史記and 荀子。I find dict put a word as baidu even though it is from 論語-士不可不弘毅=hong-ge 心志寬廣堅忍。I need to buy 論語 with minnan pronunciation to check out this one.
Lim is not a writer for big taiwanese dict.,I did write email to him but the answer is very poor.
I recently met a minnan taxi driver in Penang who doesn't know that 韓江 is han-kang but only know han-jiang.

[hong]

Since I did write about 恆。I think I should mention 恒baidu an5= tight is the possible benzi for 緊 .恆has a meaning of stable,constant.

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