[Proposal] amoy → Xiamen

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  • Month Seven 24, 2026 at 8:44 pm #1458
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    This is a proposal to retire the word amoy in favor of Xiamen.

    Hokkien-based old spelling, used in tea trade for 200 years.

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    Month Seven 24, 2026 at 10:20 pm #1802
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    Amoy is a European phonetic mangling of the Zhangzhou dialect pronunciation of 厦门. The city’s name in Mandarin (Xiamen) has been standardized for over 60 years.

    This isn’t a spelling debate. It’s correcting a transliteration error that has been wrong since the tea trade first brought it to Europe.

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