Either of you know why this particular spelling of the short version? There's not an o, a t, or a y in the full name at all!

It's also called Ootacamund or Udhagai. The double-o in English usually sounds like a u in other languages. Another city I was in is called Trichy (or sometimes Tiruchi) for short, but its official name is: Tiruchirappalli. Part of the reason might be what the town was called originally in the native language of the area which is Toda. The language of the area is now mostly Tamil. Then it was the British who had alternate names more easily pronounced by anglophones. Ooty was pronounced in English so as to rhyme with snooty, and I've heard it used to be called Snooty Ooty by some.

Ceci n'est pas un seing.