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Places (continued)

Preferred form Pronunciation Alternates
Shilla kingdom shil-la Silla kingdom
Songhai Songhay
Sri Lanka shree LAN-ka Ceylon
Thailand TIE-land Siam

Timbuktu tim-BUCK-too Timbukto,Tombouctou
USSR Soviet Union, Soviet Empire, Russia
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia known collectively as Indochina
West Indies Caribbean

Religious , Political,
and Cultural Terms
Preferred form Pronunciation Alternates
al-Jazeera as-jah-ZEER-a Al Jazeera, Al-Jazeera

al-Qaeda al-KAY-da Al Qaeda, al-queda
al-Razi al-rah-zee ar-Razi
Analects of Confucius Sayings of Confucius
Bhagavad Gita ba-ga-vad GEE-ta Bhagavadgita
Bible, The Old and New Testaments
Brahma Brahman, Brahmin
czar tsar

Daoism Taoism
indigenous peoples primitive, native, nonindustrial
Latter-day Saints Mormons
Muslim Moslem
Native Americans Indians, American Indians
Persian Achaemenian, Achaemenid empire
Qing dynasty ching Ch’ing dynasty
Quran Qur’an, Koran
Sasanian Sassanian, Sasanid, Sassanid empire

Shia SHEE-a Shi’a
Sharia sha-REE-a Shari’a, Islamic law
Siva SHEE-va Shiva
Song dynasty Sung dynasty
Tang dynasty T’ang dynasty