Commonly mispronounced words 29 - ladies

This would come as a surprise to many. But I realised most people get it wrong when I heard this word repeated more often after the release of Ladies Vs Ricky Behl. The second vowel sound in 'ladies' is shorter. It is not the elongated lay-deez as most people say it, rather shorter like lay-diz. A similar error is made in the word patties too. 

'Can I have two veg patteez' - is the common line heard at many roadside shops in India. However, this word too is pronounced with a shorter vowel sound at the end. 'pat-iz'. 

So, in summary, lay-diz not lay-deez and pat-iz not pat-eez. In Hindi, this would read as लेडिज़ or पॅटिज़ 

Pronunciation advice - Salman Rushdie

The name hogging the headlines in India for the last week or so is Salman Rushdie. However I found that on every TV channel half the panelists were calling him rush-thee and the remaining were calling him roosh-thee. I found that the Islamic experts and Imaams (those well versed in Arabic) were routinely using the latter version, whereas the anglicised were using the former. 

The correct pronunciation is sull (rhymes with dull)-maan (rhymes with barn) roosh (rhymes with bush)-thee (like the old english word). sull-maan roosh-thee. If you can read Hindi read it as सलमान रुशदी.