Word: pekingologist
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...scrambled at best. Now Radio Peking has set a new record for incomprehensibility in the land of Mao. Its Russian-language service has taken to replaying tapes of its anti-Soviet diatribes backward. The weird garble goes on for 21 hours at a stretch, and in London one mystified Pekingologist, who was monitoring the show, finally shrugged: "I suppose there's just nobody left in Peking who knows one end of a Russian tape from the other...
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