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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant #25576 04/02/2001 1:00 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 724 Avy old hand Avy old hand Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 724 > My guess is that Avy might be a better candidate - I, sight unseen (or hearing unlistened?) would ouch for the probably definitiveness of her pronunciation. Oi Yaara! Your ouch is correct - my pronunciation is definitive with no "probably" in front of it, but ... I ain't got no recording gizmo. (Thank god says she who suffers from stage fright) I too hate it when my (real) name is mispronounced. When pronounced the right way, I feel the way my name sounds - beautiful. And when pronounced wrong I feel the way it sounds - awful. A close equivalent to the pronunciation of "DH" in Gandhi is the "th" in "the" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant shanks 04/01/2001 9:14 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant Max Quordlepleen 04/01/2001 9:35 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant Capital Kiwi 04/01/2001 10:15 AM CapK and Fibey! shanks 04/01/2001 2:19 PM Re: Pronouncing wow 04/01/2001 4:20 PM Re: Pronouncing Jackie 04/01/2001 4:29 PM Re: Pronouncing musick 04/01/2001 5:12 PM Great idea shanks 04/02/2001 7:40 AM Re: Great idea Jackie 04/02/2001 11:13 AM Re: CapK and Fibey! And now Faldage Faldage 04/02/2001 12:19 PM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant shanks 04/01/2001 2:13 PM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant Avy 04/02/2001 1:00 AM Ouch... shanks 04/02/2001 7:35 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant Max Quordlepleen 04/02/2001 1:18 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant rodward 04/03/2001 12:28 PM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant inselpeter 04/03/2001 1:09 PM The nasal sound in extended Devanagari... shanks 04/03/2001 1:58 PM Re: Written sounds wow 04/03/2001 2:45 PM Re: The nasal sound in extended Devanagari... kummini 04/03/2001 3:18 PM Ta much shanks 04/04/2001 7:52 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant nancyk 04/04/2001 8:55 PM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant shanks 04/05/2001 11:05 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant Jackie 04/01/2001 11:29 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant shanks 04/01/2001 2:22 PM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant Scribbler 04/01/2001 5:23 PM Do dilettanti ever aspire to the Bar? shanks 04/02/2001 8:29 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant Fiberbabe 04/01/2001 1:32 PM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant Rouspeteur 04/02/2001 1:39 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant shanks 04/02/2001 7:54 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant Sparteye 04/02/2001 3:37 AM Re: It's Gandhi - wow 04/02/2001 2:02 PM Re: It's Gandhi - shanks 04/03/2001 8:22 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant kummini 04/03/2001 9:14 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant inselpeter 04/03/2001 10:23 AM Name meaning Jackie 04/03/2001 10:27 AM Re: Name meaning kummini 04/03/2001 3:27 PM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant wordcrazy 04/04/2001 12:59 AM Hmmm... shanks 04/04/2001 8:05 AM Re: Hmmm... Fiberbabe 04/04/2001 11:35 AM Re: Hmmm... shanks 04/04/2001 11:44 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant Sparteye 04/05/2001 12:51 PM Confession time shanks 04/05/2001 1:03 PM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant maverick 04/05/2001 4:58 PM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant Anonymous 04/05/2001 5:20 PM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant nancyk 04/05/2001 10:07 PM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant wwh 04/06/2001 12:06 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant nancyk 04/06/2001 1:06 AM Re: It's Gandhi not Ghandi - long rant inselpeter 04/06/2001 1:24 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,380 Members9,211 Most Online7,006 Mar 7th, 2026 Newest Members Boo boo kitty fu, peterreineck, Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd 9,211 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 35 A C Bowden 17 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,206 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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