[KS] Re: ICAS Seminar: Presidents of South Korea, September14,1999,

McKey giehl at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Tue Sep 14 03:54:32 EDT 1999


> At 05:29 PM 09/13/1999 , Gari Keith Ledyard wrote:

. . .

> > . .  I have heard it said that the Japanese were responsible
> >for the change to "K," but I know of no evidence or rationale in favor of
> >this assertion. ...

hi,

there is a story, that Japanese changed C to K in order to have Japan prior in
the western aplphabet.

greetings -m.g.-



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