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On July 26, 2021 I had a posting titled "Order of Participants' Entry in Opening Ceremony of Tokyo Olympics" where I could not fathom why S Korea was grouped in "ta" according to Japanese pronunciation. Last night I figured out Japanese used 大韓民国 (pronounced daikanminhoku) rather than 韓国.
=========================There is no need to read the rest.
Latest news first.
(1) Nectar Gan and Steve George, Canadian Swimmer's Success throws Spotlight on China's One-Child Policy. CNN, July 28, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/c ... intl-hnk/index.html
("MacNeil was born in 2000 in Jiujiang, a city on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in China's Jiangxi province, according to her profile on Team Canada's official website. * * * On Chinese social media, many suspected she had been abandoned by her biological parents [弃婴] * * * According to the US government, more than 84% of the over 82,000 children Americans adopted from China between 1999 and 2019 are girls")
Note:
(a) MacNeil
(i) The Irish and Scottish surname McNeil (a lacking; n in lower case) is anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Néill, a patronymic [meaning 'child of'] from the personal name Niall (genitive Néill), thought to mean 'champion' (see Neill)." Dictionry of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.
(ii) Niall Ferguson is an English historian teaching in Harvard University.
(iii) How Do You Pronounce the Name Niall? Quora
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-pronounce-the-name-Niall
Answer:
"Niall MacDonagh, Born, bred and drug up in Ireland, lived in the US since 1969
Answered 3 years ago
In Ireland it is usually pronounced to rhyme with dial, not Nile as Nile has only one syllable. However my Dad would turn over in his grave if I allowed that [dial]. My name rhymes with real. The dial thing [pronunciation] is the result of Anglicization. * * *
"Patrick Brown, Lives in Belfast
Answered 1 year ago
Historically in Irish, 'NEE-al,' with the second syllable reduced to almost nothing, so it sounds close to the English name Neil. But's it's been adopted by English speakers, who usually pronounce it 'NIGH-al' or 'nile.'
(b) "her profile in Team Canada's official website"
Margaret MacNeil. Canadian Olympic Committee, undated
https://olympic.ca/team-canada/margaret-mac-neil/
Quote:
"Personal Details[:] Born February 26, 2000 Age 21 Height 169cm Birthplace Jiujiang, China Home Province Ontario Hometown London, Ontario Residence London, Ontario
"Biography[:] In her debut at the FINA World Championships [in Gwangju 光州廣域市 (廣域 since 2005: originally capital of 全羅南道, but out of the province in 2005 by adding 廣域), South Korea] in [July 12-28,] 2019, Margaret Mac Neil delivered an incredible swim to win the world title in the 100m butterfly. She broke the Canadian, Americas, and Commonwealth record with her time of 55.83 seconds. The world championships were her first senior international competition and she defeated Swede Sarah Sjöström – the reigning Olympic champion, four-time world champion, and world record holder – in the final. Mac Neil also won a pair of bronze medals with the 4x100m freestyle and 4x100m medley relays, breaking the national records in both. She was named Swimming Canada’s Breakout Swimmer of the Year")
(c)
(i) 來自江西九江 2000年被加國夫婦收養. 加拿大星島傳媒集團, July 26, 2021
https://www.singtao.ca/5091111/2021-07-26/post-來自江西九江%e2%80%822000年被加國夫婦收養
("據加拿大國際廣播（RCI [Radio Canada International is the international broadcasting service of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC): en.wikipedia.org]）報道，她在一歲時被加拿大倫敦市一個家庭收養，養父麥克尼爾（Ed MacNeil）是一名老師，養母麥克奈爾（Susan McNair）是家庭醫生，她還有一位妹妹 [judging from Margaret's age at the adoption, it is unlikely her younger sister is biological, shared by blood]，同樣也是在中國被領養")
(ii) Department Spotlight: Dr Susan McNair. Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario
https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/fami ... r_susan_mcnair.html
("Dr Susan McNair is a Staff Physician at the St Joseph's Family Medical Centre and the Medical Director of the Regional Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Treatment Centre at St Joseph's Hospital. She also provides palliative care at University Hospital and sees patients in their homes, as well as patients in long term care [likely nursing homes]")
My guess is the photo shows Margaret's younger sister with Dr McNair.
(A) University of Western Ontario (1878- ; based in London, Ontario; branded as Western University)
(B) The school is named after Seymour Schulich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Schulich
(section 3 Philanthropy)
(C) St Joseph's Hospital (a modern highrise) and St Joseph's Family Medical and Dental Centre (a one-floor brick building) are part of St Joseph's Health Care London, which is affiliated with Western University. They are all located in London, Ontario, and founded by (Congregation of) Sisters of St Joseph but now run by St Joseph's Health Care Society. See
Leadership Team. St Joseph's Health Care London, undated
https://www.sjhc.london.on.ca/ab ... don/leadership-team
("St Joseph's Health Care London is owned by the St Joseph's Health Care Society of the Roman Catholic Diocese of London, and governed by a volunteer board of directors representing the community. Our services are publicly funded. The St Joseph's Health Care Society was formed in 1993 when the Sisters of St Joseph made the decision to cease being directly involved in the administration of the hospitals they founded in Sarnia and Chatham [both in Ontario] as well as London")
(D) What is a congregation in Catholic church? Religious congregations and religious orders are two kinds of religious institutes in the Catholic Church.
Tom Schenk, Religious Vows. Assumption Catholic Church (at Granger, Iowa, a city of 1,200 persons 15-mile air distance northwest of Des Moines), Apr 9, 2016
https://www.assumptiongranger.org/religious-vows/
("distinction on the type of vows, solemn [taken by orders] vs simple [taken by congregations] * * * The terms 'nun' and 'sister' are often used interchangeably. However, there is a difference between the two. A Catholic nun is a woman who lives as a contemplative life in a monastery which is usually cloistered (or enclosed) or semi-cloistered. Her ministry and prayer life is centered within and around the monastery for the good of the world. * * * Solemn vows are perpetual, and contrary acts, like getting married, are not only illicit but invalid. * * * A Catholic sister is a woman who lives, ministers, and prays within the world [outside enclosure]. * * * Acts contrary to simple vows, e.g., getting married, would be illicit, but valid. A religious society of simple vows is a congregation, and its members are called sisters")
(E) Assumption of Mary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary
(section 1 Etymology)
(F) Mother Teresa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa
("In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation")
had a congregation, not an order, as hers was not enclosed in a monastery.
(d) Paula Nichols, Mac Neil Wins Canada's First Gold of Tokyo 2020 in 100m Butterfly. Canadian Olympic Committee, July 25, 2021
https://olympic.ca/2021/07/25/ma ... rfly-at-tokyo-2020/
("Mac Neil touched the wall in 55.59 seconds, setting an Americas region record in the victory. That lowered her Canadian record by almost a quarter of a second [actually 0.24 second], beating the time [55.83] she had set at the 2019 FINA World Championships. Mac Neil was swimming in lane 7 after being the sixth-fastest qualifier from the semifinal. She was seventh at the turn but then turned it on. In a tight four-way race to the wall, Mac Neil edged out Zhang Yufei of China by 0.05 of a second. Australian Emma McKeon came in for the bronze, one-hundredth of a second ahead of American Torri Huske")
(e) Ziyu Zhang, Tokyo Olympics: Adopted from China, Canada's Maggie MacNeil Wins Gold and Chinese Social Media Laments Its One-Child Policy. South China Morning Post, July 26, 2021
https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/toky ... nada-022547815.html
"On Monday, Canada's Maggie MacNeil – who was born in China – garnered worldwide fame as she was crowned Olympic champion ahead of China's Zhang Yufei, the top-ranked swimmer in the women's 100m butterfly. Zhang had to settle for the silver medal in a time of 55.64 seconds, while MacNeil was 0.05 seconds ahead.
"MacNeil, as mainland media reported, was abandoned by her biological parents after being born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province in February, 2000. One year later, she was adopted as a toddler along with her younger sister from a local orphanage by Susan McNair and Edward MacNeil, of London, Ontario, Canada * * *
"MacNeil began swimming in 2008 [at age 8] and became a rising star at the University of Michigan, where she was teammates with Hong Kong's own Siobhan Haughey [a 23-tear-old psychology major; born in Jong Kong by a Hong Kong mother Canjo Haughey (maiden name unclear) and an Irish father Darach Haughey originally from Republic of Ireland and currently working in banking in Hong Kong; secured Hong Kong's first-ever Olympic medal in swimming: won silver in the women's 200m freestyle finals held on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 9:43 pm local time whose ranking is 1 AUS Ariarne Titmus 1:53.50; 2 HKG Haughey 1:53.92; 3 CAN Penny Oleksiak 1:54.70; 4 CHN Junxuan Yang 杨俊轩 1:55.01; 5 USA Katie Ledecky 1:55.21]
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发表于 7-28-2021 15:33:02
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