If you want to have a smooth finish on your walls before you paint it with expensive emulsions, what would you use. Did you say 'putty'? Well you are absolutely right. Thats a cement like material which is used for the above purpose. But if you pronounced it as 'पुट्टी' then you have made two errors.
One, you used the wrong vowel sound - 'oo' instead of 'uh' i.e. 'उ' instead of 'अ'
Two, you doubled the consonant sound - 'tt' instead of 't' i.e. 'ट्ट' instead of 'ट'
The point no. 2 is a common Indian error because of our predilection for the 'paPPoo' and 'muNNee' sounds. I will feature it in a detailed entry soon.
But the funny thing is that the guys who make the products 'JK Cement' or Birla themselves call the product 'पुट्टी' or see it as a combination of 'put' and 'tea'. The correct pronunciation is of course "पटी" or a combination of 'per' and 'tea'.
I think the marketers do not use the correct pronunciation because they think the people will not understand it. But that is stupid, when you are showing the product on the screen and pronounce it the right way, people will learn the right way. That is why I get really irritated if people in mass media do not make the extra effort to get it right. And then again there are those, who would say, in English it is 'पटी' but in Hindi it is 'पुट्टी'!
God help India!
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