Re: A quick question for one of our kind Chinese members...
William Yoon (wy7080a@american.edu)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:17:58 -0500
Hank Wong wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, A.T. wrote:
>
> > I do not know where you get the idea that TONG is a chinese name...it is
> > a very old English name ...the chinese version is usually prefixed as AH
> > Tong or Yee Tong etc. Tong by itself in chinese is the name of a group
> > or cult. excuse the time to reply as I have just returned from visiting
> > the Town clled TONG in England from whence my forefathers came from. In
> > the Auckland NZ telephone directory there are many europeans listed
> > under this name which is also spleed Tonge and occassionally Tongue.
> > regards
> > Alan Tong
>
> Yep this is way off topic, but Tong, like Lee and Young, can be either a
> Chinese or a Western last name.
For that matter, it can be a first name too- a Jewish friend of mine's first
name is Lee.
> -Hank
-William
