Jeez, you took the time to list the offenders?!? Wow, that takes bahls.
While we’re on this, is it Mother Theresa or Mother Teresa?
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The OP is 100% right. Anyone who misspells Gandhi deserves to be tea-bagged while they sleep.
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Thanks a lot. I was having coffee.
Since Gandhi’s name was originally not written using the Roman alphabet, there are different ways to transliterate it.
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Don’t be silly – we blame Rhio on Duran Duran.
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The name of the band is actually “Dhuran Dhuran.”
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Since Gandhi’s name was originally not written using the Roman alphabet, there are different ways to transliterate it.
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Cool. From now on I’m spelling it Gondy.
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No, it’s badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger…
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Badgers! Badgers! We don’t need no steeenking badgers!
I am agahst.
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Cool. From now on I’m spelling it Gondy.
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I still get the point that way. It doesn’t hurt him to think you can speak his name but not spell it.
Who can make a nation…
Of a colony…
Separate the Muslims and
Blend in the Hindi?
The Gandhi man!
The Gandhi man can 'cause he uses satyagraha
And makes the world taste good…
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'scuse me, I wasn’t paying attention. I was reading my favorite comic strips, “Blandhi” and “Dandhi.”
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Gandhi is dandhi, bhut liqhur is quikhur.
By the way, students at my former high school painted the famous “an eye for an eye” quote on one of the walls… and spelled the name “Ghandi.” Good thing I was never proud of that institution of alleged learning.
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Since Gandhi’s name was originally not written using the Roman alphabet, there are different ways to transliterate it.
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Yep. I freak out slightly whenever someone claims there’s a “correct” way to transliterate a word. Transliteration is an art, not a science.
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The OP is 100% right. Anyone who misspells Gandhi deserves to be tea-bagged while they sleep.
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Either that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen, or you’re worse than Ihtler. I can’t quite make up my mind.
However, he was entirely adept at English, schooled in English law. My understanding is that the transliteration as commonly given was his preference.
Which I mispelled. Guilty as charged. My humiliation is a vast cavern of darkness, which my soul wanders in ceaseless woe and sorrow. Seppuku seems the only possible course.
According to Wikipedia the various spellings of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are :-
Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, Hindi: मोहनदास करमचंद गांधी, IAST: mohandās karamcand gāndhī, IPA: [moːhənd̪aːs kərəmtʃənd̪ gaːnd̪ʱiː]
Awww, shaddup, Ray!
I’m changing my name to mendho.
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Which I mispelled. Guilty as charged. My humiliation is a vast cavern of darkness, which my soul wanders in ceaseless woe and sorrow. Seppuku seems the only possible course.
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nitpick
Will this be assisted seppuku? If you have a Second it really changes things for me.
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Awww, shaddup, Ray!
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That’s rahy to you.
Next thing, there will be some poor soul rantimg about the spellings of Buddha and Buddhist.
(And don’t even get the Detroiters started on the spelling of Lahser Rd.)
I’m a very literate college graduate, and I can never for the life of me remember whether it’s Tolkien or Tolkein; or Caesar or Ceasar.