In this "Memorandum" Wilkinson tries to help prove "Mah Jongg" has nothing to do with a Chinese name and therefore is "registrable". He speaks of 'kan hu' and gives the Chinese characters: kan (watch) + hu (pot, wine jug) (看壺). He explains the meaning as "look out for the ...
Romance languages come from Latin, so unlike Japanese, Sanskrit, Tagalog or Urdu,Romance language uses the same alphabetwith some exceptions and accents. English has very arbitrary-seeming rules, and spelling and pronunciation can change from word to word. For example, the words bough and trough ...