On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Gora Mohanty gora@mimirtech.com wrote:
2012/1/23 ansuman ansumang@gmail.com:
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 ??
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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 -- [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