Latinized versions of Arabic names are so... odd. How do you get Avicenna from ibn Sīnā? Or Algoritmi from al-Khwārizmī?

I suppose that's just our modern knowledge of foreign language pronunciation/romanization rules, though. I suppose the people at the time were just making their best efforts to transcribe the sound of the name.

Then again, even knowing the current official romanization of foreign place names and comparing to that of the recent past looks really weird. Like, look at Mumbai vs Bombay, or Beijing vs Peking.

@Felthry I'm not sure, but I thought that Peking was derived from some regional Chinese dialect v.s. Beijing.

@BatElite chinese is maybe a bad example because it's not one language but several related ones

@Felthry Much like how you're not one cutie but (at least) 2 related ones. :D