Well, this is embarrassing....

[suzer1013]

OK, so last night I was composing a post regarding non-violence on another board, and it strikes me that everyone else is spelling the great Mahatma's name wrong. I am indignant -- I sure wish people could learn to spell "Ghandi" the right way!

So, I Google it, just to satisfy myself of my correctness and....

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! :eek:

I've been spelling the name wrong for all these years! :o Who'da thunk it? Poor Gandhi -- victim to my spelling mistakes for, well, at least a decade now.

Sometimes, ya just gotta laugh at yourself. :lol:

Susan

[Poetic Awakening]

Wow, I would have been spelling it wrong as well. :o

[Zerbie]

I think 9 outta 10 folks have been spelling it Ghandi. Nothing to be embarassed about, it's a foreign name/spelling for our culture. We all know who is meant.

[schoolboi]

I can't ever remember the right way to spell it. I always have to look it up.

[BruceChris]

Lessee, Ghandi, Gandhi, Ghandhi, just how have I been spelling it all these years? :confused: :eek: :lol:

Peace and Love, BruceChris

[Zerbie]

GANDHI

Rather than dividing the word, Gand + hi, it divides Gan + Dhi.

The H comes after the D because it affects the D sound, to soften it. You can say a D and make it "hard," most Americans will do that habitually. Or you can say a D softly with your tongue lightly pressed against your lower teeth, it comes out softer and I've noticed I don't move my jaw as much for a soft Dhi sound as I do for a hard D sound. (for the opera singers, it's a lot like the difference between American versus Italian Ts.)

You don't try to pronounce the H. The H means that the D is gentle, soft, tongue against the teeth. "dhi" is one sound.

"dhi" should be it's own letter.

Gan+Dhi= Gandhi.

[Daniel]

Rather than dividing the word, Gand + hi, it divides Gan + Dhi.

The H comes after the D because it affects the D sound, to soften it. You can say a D and make it "hard," most Americans will do that habitually. Or you can say a D softly with your tongue lightly pressed against your lower teeth, it comes out softer and I've noticed I don't move my jaw as much for a soft Dhi sound as I do for a hard D sound. (for the opera singers, it's a lot like the difference between American versus Italian Ts.)



Buddhism.....Bud-dhism. Same issue, same sound.

Zerbie- right on the money re singing. A rounded tip of the tongue (T crossed with D in feeling) and a sound that isn't aspirated, that is, no air is released before the vowel sound that comes after the D. The H is silent.

[baldness_65]

Great, now you've gone and pissed off the Mahatma.

[kimmyd]

OH NO!:lol:

Ok, here's one: Back when I was struggling to get published, I sent a major pub. agent a letter stating that I'd always wanted to be a writter--that I'd been writting all my life, etc...all the freaking while mispelling that!!

Needless to say, I was turned down flat.:'(


OK, so last night I was composing a post regarding non-violence on another board, and it strikes me that everyone else is spelling the great Mahatma's name wrong. I am indignant -- I sure wish people could learn to spell "Ghandi" the right way!

So, I Google it, just to satisfy myself of my correctness and....

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! :eek:

I've been spelling the name wrong for all these years! :o Who'da thunk it? Poor Gandhi -- victim to my spelling mistakes for, well, at least a decade now.

Sometimes, ya just gotta laugh at yourself. :lol:

Susan

[Mia14]

"A rose by another other name would smell as sweet"

or

"A Gandhi (Ghandhi Ghandi) by any other name would inspire as many."

[Joe Brummer]

Well since we are going to talk about spelling.

Non-violence is the lack of violence or the absence of violence.

Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.



I know it is a petty thing, but it is a pet peeve of mine.

Non-violence isn't what we are practicing....Nonviolence is.

[suzer1013]

Thanks, Joe! I never would have known that if you hadn't said something. I had no idea there was a difference between the two -- I would have assumed there was always a hyphen. I learn something new every day. :)

Susan

[Jamie McDaniel]

Seems you weren't the only one here spelling it wrong. :)

www.google.com/search?q=ghandi+site:www.soulforce.org (http://www.google.com/search?q=ghandi+site:www.soulforce.org)

[NonLemming]

Well since we are going to talk about spelling.

Non-violence is the lack of violence or the absence of violence.

Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.



I know it is a petty thing, but it is a pet peeve of mine.

Non-violence isn't what we are practicing....Nonviolence is.

Cool, Joe. Good to know. I'm not as anal as I used to be about spelling, but I do like knowing the correct way. Thanks, again.