Re: "th" sounds in loanwords

ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> India's Delhi would have to be spelt <Dilli> in order to be pronounced
> correctly and even then, among Europeans, only Italians would pronounce
> it properly with both a dental [d[] and geminate [ll].

Isn't that the capital of the Maldives?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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