On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Arun Pratik <codito(a)codito.in> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Gora Mohanty
<gora(a)mimirtech.com> 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