Talk:Hongkew

Early Use
Per suggestion at that 'Hongkew' may originate as "the Postal romanization of 虹口" I want to try to confirm the age of this word and whether this word predates the beginning of the  system which began perhaps in at earliest(?)  1878 (from the Wikipedia page) (will add as discovered):
 * 1850 (hyphenated)
 * 1853 (?)
 * 1860
 * --Geographyinitiative (talk) 19:21, 20 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Do you know how reliable the dates given by Google Books is? The first source says 1873 on the previous page, and the book title says 1848-75, so a publication date of 1850 seems odd. Separately, maybe it's notable that the happened in 1848 and seems to somewhat comprise Hongkew, so I reckon it must have been romanized in some way in the process. Or maybe  already did it earlier. ChromeGames (talk) 07:06, 23 September 2021 (UTC)