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I'm with you, Ann. Until this thread, I never even thought of it, although I can see how the hp could migrate into the more familiar ph. Interesting.
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Me, too. I pronounce it with your regular old /p/. But I'm from a lot of places so I don't fit the statistical model.
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In reply to:
and then transposing dhp (a sound, no doubt i could learn to make)
Actually, you already do. In my Hindi textbooks, the sound is described as being analagous to that produced in the phrase and how.
As for "if my audience was mostly desi," I wouldn't worry about that too much. Deis differ on how to say that word itself. Some say "deshi", others "desi". There's nothing particularly difficult about the name of Jodhpur. Just aspirate the d (which is dental, not retroflex), and you'll be pretty much on the money.
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Do you-all mean to tell me that you pronounce it "jod-pers"??? That is really weird, to me: I have never heard it as anything but jod-furs.
As to money, I found in the book where a daughter got "an allowance of a lakh (1,00,000) of rupees a year." And another place, where "the wedding preparations--costing Rs 3,50,000 ...". I don't care what they are of: how many is 3,50,000?
(Heh heh--I am waiting to get slapped by whomever I accused of misspelling jodhpurs; but they can't, yet, 'cause then I'll know who wrote that definition!)
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Here's a question I asked on your behalf in a forum frequented by speakers of Indian English: In reply to:
Is this a simple case of a leading zero being omitted, so that 3,50,000 is what would be written elsewhere as 3,050,000? Remember, she is not concerned with what the units are, she is trying to understand how many they are. Thanks.
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Here's the thread in which I posed that question: http://snipurl.com/g7nc-mq42
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As a kid, I used to see it written jodphur about as often as jodhpur, but it was always pronounced jodper, never jodfer. fwiw.
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As a yuthd I allus saw it written jodhpurs and pronounced as JOD-pers or JOD-pahs.
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Thanks. Wow, and here I'd been thinking that numbers were the same pretty much everywhere.
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