शिरीष said on Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:44:04PM +0530,: > i know many tamil and south indian people add an additional "h" to the > spelling of os people's name. > > e.g. > susmit(a) will be spelled susmith(a) > > while > > i also have noticed that > > sudhakaran is never spelled sudakaran even by mistake... > > is there a rationale and logic that people of south indian states use > while adding that extra "h"
I guess the difference is in the way the words are spelt in the concerned language. At least, in thse specific cases, the concerned letters are /ta/ and /dha/. Only my guess. Let us uope linguistis have a better answer. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com End Users are just friends who haven't submitted a patch yet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
