Re: A quick question for one of our kind Chinese members...
Lee Thompson lt@seattlelab.com
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:29:17 GMT
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:17:58 -0500, you wrote:
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>Hank Wong wrote:
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>> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, A.T. wrote:
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>> > 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
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>> Yep this is way off topic, but Tong, like Lee and Young, can be either a
>> Chinese or a Western last name.
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>For that matter, it can be a first name too- a Jewish friend of mine's first
>name is Lee.
No kidding :p
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Lee Thompson shadow@nwlink.com
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