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Happy Diwali! Oct 26, 2011
Just wanted to say Happy Diwali (the festival of lights) to all our Indian members. I hope you have wonderful celebrations and a joyous time :D

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Re: Happy Diwali! Oct 27, 2011
Tell me this,

If it is pronounced Divali,

then why is it spelt Diwali?
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Re: Happy Diwali! Oct 27, 2011
Happy Diwali
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Re: Happy Diwali! Oct 27, 2011
benwj wrote:Tell me this,

If it is pronounced Divali,

then why is it spelt Diwali?


lol really? i remember my indian professor in uni pronouncing w/v sounds like it was reverse :lol: "vile we are in the subject of standard deviation..."

"they shall be wictorious..."

really puts a smile on my face that teacher :twisted:
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Re: Happy Diwali! Oct 28, 2011
benwj wrote:Tell me this,

If it is pronounced Divali,

then why is it spelt Diwali?


Don't know, but same as all German's pronounce W's as V's I guess.
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Re: Happy Diwali! Oct 28, 2011
Hmmm...don't know about that one. Some Germans do interchange "v", "w" and "f". Also depens a lot from which area they are. Never heard a German say mein Veib instead of mein Weib. Volkswagen is usually pronounced as Folkzwwaagen. In English in general they say Willage instead of Village. Thats changing the v for the w, the other way around.
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Re: Happy Diwali! Oct 28, 2011
Ve have vays of making you talk! :D
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Re: Happy Diwali! Oct 28, 2011
The "W" is a very strange letter. After some research it appears in German it is used for the voiced labiodental fricative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
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Re: Happy Diwali! Oct 28, 2011
And in particular the Malyalas of Dubai: changing 'F' to 'P' so 'piptee pio' for fifty five and, and 'penis' for finish! :shock:
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