Re: New pronunciation of Bangalore

PT wrote:
This just in:

The governments of Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, and Serbia
announced that henceforth, the spelling of their respective cities must be
changed from:

Rome to Roma
Munich to München
Prague to Praha
Warsaw to Warszava, and

In English, wouldn't it be Varshava? Lodz would have a W; it might be
spelt Woods.

Belgrade to Beograd

These changes have been made in the interest of clarity, and achieving
parity with the third worlders

In India, the parity sought is between the lumpen masses and the upper
crust. The Polish masses don't feel that they'll be pegged for country
bumpkins if they call Warsaw Varshava since the Polish intelligensia
too call it that. So, they need no artifice to force their
intelligensia to call it by the same name they use.

<ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
It's new official name is, or will be, Bangaluru*, pronounced
[bVNg@lu:rU].

* transliterated from its spelling in Kannada.

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