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      • Actually, he’s right about that. I was told (long before the incident with John Kerry) by a native Taiwanese who spoke Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese that that was the correct pronunciation. Also, my guess is that “Genghis Khan” originates in Italian, in which the letter ‘g’ followed by ‘e’ or ‘i’ is pronounced as ‘j’, while the ‘h’ inserted between the ‘g’, and an ‘e’ or ‘i’ means that it is pronounced as a hard g.

        I bow to no man in my insistence that John Kerry is a fool and a traitor, but he’s right about this pronunciation.

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