Re: [Indlinux-group] logic in adding "h"

[Mahesh T. P. <pai...@ya...>]

शिरीष said on Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:44:04PM +0530,:

 > i know many tamil and south indian people add an additional "h" to the
 > spelling of os people's name.
 > 
 > e.g.
 > susmit(a) will be spelled susmith(a)
 > 
 > while
 > 
 > i also have noticed that
 > 
 > sudhakaran is never spelled sudakaran even by mistake...
 > 
 > is there a rationale and logic that people of south indian states use
 > while adding that extra "h"

I guess the difference is in the way the words are spelt in the
concerned language. At least, in thse specific cases, the concerned
letters are /ta/ and /dha/. 

Only my guess. Let us uope linguistis have a better answer. 

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