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Regarding the name Assam, I think
this is what happened.
The British listened to the local
pronunciation, and found that the /S/ phoneme which resembles the sound most is
the /SS/ as used in their words such as 'issue', 'tissue' etc.
Please note that /SS/ phoneme has
the sound like /sh/. Anyhow that is how we got the double SS I
think.
Aren't you happy that we have SS in
the word Assam instead of a single S?
I am sure many like me would like
the present spelling Assam which has now been established as an International
brand name known all over the world either for Assam Tea, Assam Silk, Assam Oil,
or for (Dinjan and Chabua) Assam etc.
Let us keep it.
We have much more important things
to worry about.
Like the Assam;s economy as
revealed in the report per the following link.
Rajen Barua
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:05
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Enough of this
Controversy !
"Asam" might be ours.
But "Assam" is definitely the one of the British colonial masters of
yore.
Best wishes,
Praantik
Frankly speaking, even is
others call us OkSOM instead of
OXOM, I don't see what is the problem.
Let others pronounce it wrong.
We mispronounce mexico all the time.
They will mispronounce it with
ASOM anyway and will say ESOM or
USOM.
My million dollar question is
why we are worrying for people saying OkSOM and not
worrying if they call us ESOM or USOM?.
And why we want to change the
beautiful Mongoloid International name ASSAM anyway. That
is our Mongolian name, and people are pronouncing it right.
What is our
problem?
Amar ki ukohe
khaise?
It bits me.
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:05
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Enough of
this Controversy !
I agree to ur points. But just
see the way people pronounce the words like Xavier (with reference to St.
Xavier), X-mas, Excuse etc.
Well, I believe that when the State surges ahead economically, the whole
world would try to pronounce the way we do. It wouldn't matter even if it
is written as Asom, Asam, Osom, Oxom et al. However the bright
side of the change is the dropping of the second 'S' from "Assam". Now, we
have to prove that our state is "Asam" not "Assam" and we the
people are not "Ass-amese" but "Asamese" / "Asamiya".
Isn't it ?
Regards,
Praantik
Rajen Barua
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A layman who has no idea about the symbol 'X'
according to the codes of the IPA (International Phonetics Association),
can hardly pronounce >AXOM / OXOM properly.
If you don't mind let me
ask you the question back. How a layman has the idea what sound to
pronounce for X for the following
English words?
xenophobia /
xylophone / axiom /examination /excise /
exit
Or Chinese
name : Xingjiang
Or Spanish name :
Mexico
Or Russian :
Xruschev, Chexov
Or Greek:
Xarish
The answer to all these is
that we will have to learn the correct pronounciation of X in all
these words in different language. Even in English we cannot take it for
granted that it will be pronounced as X in Box all the
time. Similarly people will have to learn the correct pronunciation
of X in Oxom, Xongkordev, Xotriya, Xukanguri etc in Assamese.
And how do we teach
people?
Very simple, we simply tell
that the X in Assamese is pronounced like
X = kh, a guttural
sound pronounced as 'ch' as in the Scottich word 'Loch' or
german word 'Bach', or Zurich etc
Now against the above, what
we have on the table:
ASOM :(Ppronounced
ESOM)
How do we teach
people to pronounce S in ASOM?
S as in Sun or S as in kh
=?
I wil write leter why the
first vowel need to be O and not A for OXOM.
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006
5:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Enough
of this Controversy !
Thats very
true.
A
layman who has no idea about the symbol 'X' according to the codes of
the IPA (International Phonetics Association), can hardly pronounce
AXOM / OXOM properly. But at least the Sahitya Sabha Stalwarts ought
to be aware of the significance of 'X' and re-christen the "ASS" as
Asom Xahitya Xabha (AXX). I am leaving out the word "Asom" (for as I
said, a lot of controversy surrounds it).
Anyways, thanx for ur mail.
Regards,
Praantik
Rajen Barua
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some people seem to be quite happy
with ASS.
It seems Asom Sahitya Sabha
(ASS) changed its name only in 1964 to
ASS.
It may be the right time now for it
to change to OXX (Oxom Xahitya
Xobha)
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 16,
2006 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd:
Enough of this Controversy !
Praantik
Barua seems to drive home some good points.
On 3/16/06, Webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
To,
The Editor,
The Assam Tribune,
Guwahati - 781 003.
Sub: Enough of
this Controversy !
Dear Sir,
For those persons who worry about the peculiarity of the
'S' pronounciation in the word "Asom", I find it somewhat
strange. Today, the non-French or the non-German speakers, when
pronouncing French or German words try to pronounce as perfectly
as the former. When our State becomes economically developed,
people all over the world would take interest in
pronouncing "Asom" as per the style of the Asomese/ Asomiya
language.
Also,
its very disappointing to see the whole lot of confusion and
controversy created over the issue of State Name. Infact, if we
observe carefully, it is not "Change" of name, but a sort of
"Rectification". When the world-renowned Indian city of "Bombay"
was changed to the drastically different
word "Mumbai", all the sections of the
Maharashtrian People accepted it. Though it sounded somewhat
rustic, they took pride in it. And, today the whole of India and
the world has become used to the word "Mumbai" in a span of just
a few months. All the government as well as non-government
including Newspapers, Magazines, Text-books etc all over India
has replaced "Bombay" as "Mumbai". They didn't deem it as
breaking of 'tradition' (if "Bombay" was their tradition in the
true sense), but as "Restoration of Native Pride". But the
situation is very different out here in this state. Infact the
difference among the people in this state is stiffling. There is
no point in making a Constructive move out here. Someone had
rightly written it off as "Assam". Truely, this controversy and
difference among its people over this issue proves ------
"Ass"amese people deserve their state to be called "Ass"am. Keep
it up ! Long live "Assam" ! Joi Aai "Ass"am !!!
Yours sincerely,
Praantik Barua,
Guwahati - 3
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