Comments on: Keemun, not Keemum http://teafinelybrewed.com/blog/keemun-not-keemum/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:13:19 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kevin Huihttp://teafinelybrewed.com/blog/keemun-not-keemum/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Kevin Hui Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:51:49 +0000 http://teafinelybrewed.com/?p=838#comment-264 Kee-mun is old anglisation of 祁門, "qi men" (pronounced CHI-MEN) in proper mandarin pinyin. It literally means the door of Kee (surname). In Chinese context it actually means from the House of Kee.Bit of trivia for you.Kee or Qi in that particular character is a rare surname and my mum's maiden name happen to be that. Kee-mun is old anglisation of 祁門, “qi men” (pronounced CHI-MEN) in proper mandarin pinyin. It literally means the door of Kee (surname). In Chinese context it actually means from the House of Kee.

Bit of trivia for you.

Kee or Qi in that particular character is a rare surname and my mum’s maiden name happen to be that.

]]> By: danhttp://teafinelybrewed.com/blog/keemun-not-keemum/comment-page-1/#comment-230 dan Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:05:04 +0000 http://teafinelybrewed.com/?p=838#comment-230 Glad to be of assistance!I think your search metrics might be a bit off, though...sometimes Google will automatically assume what it thinks you meant, and display results for that instead of what you actually searched for. If you examine the results for keemum tea, you'll see that many of them actually say keemun (at least it's that way for me.)If you put your query in quotation marks, Google will only return exact phrase matches. I got 9,220 hits for "keemum tea" (with quotes), compared to 46,000 for "keemun tea".That said, results might also vary by country (I'm in the US), and it's still a pretty widespread [mis]spelling, so you shouldn't feel too silly :)Also, the RSS feed seems to be working OK for me (assuming this is the most recent posting.) Glad to be of assistance!

I think your search metrics might be a bit off, though…sometimes Google will automatically assume what it thinks you meant, and display results for that instead of what you actually searched for. If you examine the results for keemum tea, you’ll see that many of them actually say keemun (at least it’s that way for me.)

If you put your query in quotation marks, Google will only return exact phrase matches. I got 9,220 hits for “keemum tea” (with quotes), compared to 46,000 for “keemun tea”.

That said, results might also vary by country (I’m in the US), and it’s still a pretty widespread [mis]spelling, so you shouldn’t feel too silly :)

Also, the RSS feed seems to be working OK for me (assuming this is the most recent posting.)

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