With the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics now gone
do svidaniya, the spotlight is slowly making its way to Rio de Janeiro and Pyongchang (
p'yŏng•
ch'ang, also spelled Pyeongchang).
In that vein, the
Wall Street Journal has
an interesting video on how the preparation is going for the 2018 Winter Olympics in the rural mountainous P'yŏngch'ang-gun County of South Korea's Kangwon-do Province:
As I noted in
my Twitter feed (@kushibo), NBC folks kept pronouncing it pyee-ahng-chang, a result of that extraneous
e in the atrocious Pyeongchang spelling:
Yup. Pee-ahng-chang.
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