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I noticed that somebody misspelled this word over in W & F, and that reminded me that I've been meaning to ask this, anyway: were these riding pants named after the city or State in India that is mentioned in the book I've been reading? Only it is spelled Jodhpur; but I was wondering if this was the style there, perhaps? I can't imagine how something spelled Jodhpur got to be pronounced jod-furs.
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The city is Jodhpur, the trousers worn by the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible are, apparently, jodphurs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JodhpurThe Wikipedia article gives the spelling of the name in devanagari as well, showing the "dh" before the "p".
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try putting jod*urs into OneLook; the only spelling that comes up is jodhpurs -- or were you saying that jodphurs is the misspelling?
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If jodphurs is a misspelling of the trousers, it's a very common one, according to Google.
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FTR,
jodhpurs 86000+
jodphurs 21000+
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> something spelled Jodhpur got to be pronounced jod-furs.
because it's not?
'jäd-(")p&r
formerly known as etaoin...
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the proper way to say the City name? (Jodhpur) i don't know.
but --that rhetorical term-- (i remember it begins with a m.. i have gotten that far) for switching letters positions in a word?-- well, that process seems to be in play. (and the process where we make a foreign word look and sound like english.)
Jodhpur--quickly becomes jodphur-- and we all know how to 'say' ph(where as dhp doesn't seem to flow smoothly from the tongue!)
and so we get Jod-fur's
and in the US, only a handful are aware that there even is a city named Jodhpur!
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were you saying that jodphurs is the misspelling? No, dag nab it! I was trying to get people to throw up their hands in horror, and squawk, "You're wrong! You're wrong! The prrropah way of spelling it is of course...". Dag-gone--have you all been infected with niceness, or something?  JFTR, when I googled the two versions before posting, I got something like jodhpurs 83,000 and jodphurs 23,000. aware that there even is a city named Jodhpur! Well, I wouldn't have been had it not been for that book; which is really why I decided to read it. I know very little about India and even less about her history. I have been trying to discover exactly how it was that England came to take it over, and am having only marginal success. Oh--I just reminded myself of another question: a couple of times in the book, I have seen ref.'s to an amount of...Rupees?, for ex.: R 1,50,000. Can anybody tell me how many 1,50,000 of anything is? That first comma has me bumfuzzled.
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Is that what you're looking for, Helen?
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yeah--that's it --metathesis.. the process where brid becomes bird, and pretty, purty.
ouroburus has sunk into my brain (i posted the word 2 different times as one i had never heard of before that happened) and memathisis will sink in too..
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