On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Arun Pratik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote: [...] >> 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.
Great idea: I am of the firm opinion that language should be a living thing, and spellings, pronunciations, etc., should be open to change, though maybe only slowly. > ୱିକି seems to be the right counterpart for "wiki" in sense of > pronunciation. Here, I am comfortable with either: The ଡ଼ vs. ଡ seems more jarring to me. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-OR mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or
