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<blockquote data-quote="Pimpom" data-source="post: 2380700" data-attributes="member: 38308"><p>There have been many attempts along that line. It hasn't done any good. Did you notice how many responses in this thread have failed to accept that the spelling 'Aizwal' is wrong?</p><p></p><p>You're not mistaken. Thanks for your input. <strong><em>You</em></strong> got the point. But see how many other replies in this thread itself refuse to accept that the spelling 'Aizwal' is wrong?</p><p></p><p>That depends on the name and its roots.</p><p>Take, for example, that city to the north of Delhi, inside the NCR area. I've seen its name written as Sonipat or Sonepat. I believe that this is because the middle vowel sounds somewhere between e and i. Written English is very poor at representing sounds, especially vowels. So both spellings are acceptable (correct me if I'm wrong - I was just an occasional visitor while my son was studying there).</p><p></p><p>The case of Aizawl is different. Each letter in my language is always pronounced exactly the same and never varies from word to word. The letter i <em>always</em> sounds as a clear ee, no variation. And, as I said before, there are no "in-between" sounds in our language. No ambiguities in pronunciation. So there has never been a different spelling for Aizawl or any other word. And no visitor will ever hear variations in the pronunciation.</p><p></p><p>There's another factor that baffles my people as to why so many Indians get it wrong. The factor is that the name is short - only six letters and the phonetics follow common sounds in English.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pimpom, post: 2380700, member: 38308"] There have been many attempts along that line. It hasn't done any good. Did you notice how many responses in this thread have failed to accept that the spelling 'Aizwal' is wrong? You're not mistaken. Thanks for your input. [B][I]You[/I][/B] got the point. But see how many other replies in this thread itself refuse to accept that the spelling 'Aizwal' is wrong? That depends on the name and its roots. Take, for example, that city to the north of Delhi, inside the NCR area. I've seen its name written as Sonipat or Sonepat. I believe that this is because the middle vowel sounds somewhere between e and i. Written English is very poor at representing sounds, especially vowels. So both spellings are acceptable (correct me if I'm wrong - I was just an occasional visitor while my son was studying there). The case of Aizawl is different. Each letter in my language is always pronounced exactly the same and never varies from word to word. The letter i [I]always[/I] sounds as a clear ee, no variation. And, as I said before, there are no "in-between" sounds in our language. No ambiguities in pronunciation. So there has never been a different spelling for Aizawl or any other word. And no visitor will ever hear variations in the pronunciation. There's another factor that baffles my people as to why so many Indians get it wrong. The factor is that the name is short - only six letters and the phonetics follow common sounds in English. [/QUOTE]
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