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06-07-2006, 08:52 AM
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Well, this is embarrassing....
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!!!!!!  I've been spelling the name wrong for all these years!  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.  Susan 
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06-07-2006, 11:59 AM
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Wow, I would have been spelling it wrong as well.
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06-07-2006, 12:17 PM
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Suzer, we luv ya anyway
Lessee, Ghandi, Gandhi, Ghandhi, just how have I been spelling it all these years?
 Peace and Love, BruceChris
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#6
06-07-2006, 12:29 PM
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Dhi is one sound
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.
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#7
06-07-2006, 12:41 PM
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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.
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#8
06-07-2006, 12:42 PM
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spelling
Great, now you've gone and pissed off the Mahatma.
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06-07-2006, 02:41 PM
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OH NO!
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.  Quote:
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06-09-2006, 07:44 PM
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hehehe...
"A rose by another other name would smell as sweet"
or "A Gandhi (Ghandhi Ghandi) by any other name would inspire as many."
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#11
06-10-2006, 05:56 PM
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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.
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#12
06-10-2006, 07:06 PM
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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
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06-13-2006, 03:50 PM
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Seems you weren't the only one here spelling it wrong.
www.google.com/search?q=ghandi+site:www.soulforce.org
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#14
06-13-2006, 06:20 PM
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Quote:
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