On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2012/1/23 ansuman <[email protected]>:
>> I don't see any problem with Wikipedia (ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ). This is the most
>> suitable spelling we have in Odia. And this is a English name which we are
>> writing in Odia. So there should not be any issue. Who is saying wrong
>> spelling and why Language committee is nurturing I don't understand ??
> [...]
>
> While I am certainly no Oriya pandita, personally, I would spell it as
> ୱିକିପିଡିଆ . I understand from others who are more well-versed in
> Oriya than me that the current spelling, ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ is acceptable.
> To me, ଉଇ instead of ୱି seems fine, but ଡ଼ instead of ଡ seems
> strange: That is not how it is pronounced in English.
As a fun experiment, I did a quick lookup on a similar word ("wicket")
in three common Odia news papers :) Two of them, Samaja [0] and
Sambada [1] write it as ୱିକେଟ while Dharitri [2] writes it as ଉଇକେଟ.
ୱିକି seems to be the right counterpart for "wiki" in sense of
pronunciation.
Thanks,
Arun
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[0] http://samajaepaper.com/epaper/pdf/2012/01/23/20120123a_015101003.jpg
or http://samajaepaper.com/epaper/pdf/2012/01/23/20120123a_015101003.pdf
[1] http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=15985&boxid=7313718
[2] http://www.dharitri.com/epaper/230112/p20.htm
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