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Today's contest: Help the Newspaper of Record write a mnemonic to avoid future corrections like this one:
A television review on Oct. 25 about “In Treatment,” on HBO, misspelled the surname of the actor who plays Sunil. He is Irrfan Khan, not Kahn. (A reader pointed out the error in an e-mail message this week.)
A television review on Oct. 25 about “In Treatment,” on HBO, misspelled the surname of the actor who plays Sunil. He is Irrfan Khan, not Kahn. (A reader pointed out the error in an e-mail message this week.)
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posted by fev at 7:52 AM
4 Comments:
That's better than what I read in the newspaper I worked for many years ago. It was an article about the Shaw of Iran.
It would have to cover Ghandi, errrr Gandhi, too.
Maybe: In Indian words, the H never goes where you expect it to?
I had a Hindu Indian friend as a roommate while I was at school. I noticed that in some words he pronounced the h. So Delhi was something like del-hee. Would an Indian pronounce Gandhi as "Gand-hee"?I don't know whether that's normal or not.
"h after a for Germanic names like Madeline's; h before a for Asians like Irrfan and Genghis (plus Montalban)."
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