[Proposal] lhasa → Lasa

[zhonglish]

This is a proposal to retire the word lhasa in favor of Lasa.

Tibetan romanization — English misrepresents the Chinese official spelling.

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Lasa in pinyin. Lhasa in English convention. The ‘h’ is non-phonetic and comes from a non-Chinese romanization tradition.

This is a marginal case — Lhasa is well-established. But I vote Yes on consistency grounds.

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