Re: New pronunciation of Bangalore
- From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 2 Nov 2006 14:05:17 -0800
ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
It's new official name is, or will be, Bangaluru*, pronounced
[bVNg@lu:rU].
* transliterated from its spelling in Kannada.
Yesterday Rachel Maddow reported, on the radio, that it's Bengaluru
with an e. what's the official national roman-alphabet spelling? (And
it means 'bean stew city' or some such.)
.
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