Re: OT Pronunciation of _Galle_ (was: YAPT)

On Wednesday, January 5, 2005, at 08:02 , Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> Paul Bennett wrote:
>
>> What's bugging the hell out of me is the BBC news, who
>> insist on refering to the town I thought was /'g@l`:e/
>> as /g&li:/
>
> On the Swedish news they call it /go:l/, so now I'm utterly
> confused, since I've always assumed /'g@l:e/ based on the
> standard way of romanizing Indic words.
I don't know what BBC source Paul means, but on the television BBC 1 news
& on BBC News 24 it has consistently been pronounced like "Gaul", even by
correspondents in the place, whenever I've watched. The Swedish /go:l/ is,
  I guess, based on that.

I suspect that _Galle_ is not a standard romanization of any Indic form,
but an English spelling of a local name, dating from the days of the Raj.

Ray
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