In educated Hong Kong Cantonese speech, these sound mergers are avoided, and many older speakers still distinguish between those phoneme categories. With the sound changes, the name of Hong Kong's Hang Seng Bank (), Jyutping: , , literally Hong Kong Constant Growth Bank, becomes , sounding like Hon' Kon' itchy body 'un cold (). The name of Cantonese itself (, "Guangdong speech") would be Jyutping: , IPA: without the merger, whereas (sounding like "": "say eastern speech") and (sounding like "" : "chase away eastern speech") are overwhelmingly common in Hong Kong.Together Learn Cantonese, see middle section.
