RE: A quick question for one of our kind Chinese members...
Califf, Jennifer (jcaliff@nsai-petro.com)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:29:21 -0600
On Monday, February 22, 1999 12:27 AM, Hank Wong
[SMTP:hankwong@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU] 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.
>
My guess here is that Mr. Tong saw the letter and thought it was
personally addressed to him under the assumption that he was Chinese,
not realizing that the letter was a query addressed to the entire list.
Jennifer
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