[thechat] Why?
Madhu Menon
webguru at vsnl.net
Wed Jun 4 01:59:29 CDT 2003
At 12:20 PM 04-06-03, Ashok Hariharan wrote:
>mis-pronounce it as :
>"Gaan-di" without the 'H' sound in the "di".
Hey, one of the reasons I got my nickname was because the bloody Aussies
couldn't pronounce the "dh" in my name properly. :)
I hated being called "mudoo" and voluntarily asked to be called "Mad" (in
the grand Aussie tradition of using contractions for everything - Breakkie,
Uni, Tassie, etc.)
>"Gaan-di" ends
>up sounding like a body part.....
In Hindi, he means. ;)
(for those of you who don't speak the language, "gaand" is a rude way of
saying "arse" in Hindi.)
M
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