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"For instance, Beijing Mandarin treats the Chengdu South- Western Mandarin (SWM) loanword '£|kau53' as 'fiti kau214', not as 'JU kau51', which would be a better form according to the 'similarity principle'. Both tone 214 in Beijing Mandarin ..." (Comparison of Languages in contact: the distillation method and the case of Bai) --Prisencolin (talk) 17:53, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]