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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

My common bloopers - 11 - Nadiad

Nadiadwalla has been a name all cineastes in India have known for over half a century. And like many of them, I too pronounced this name incorrectly. The name comes from the place in Gujarat called Nadiad. I used to pronounce it as nud-E-yard (both hard Ds). The correct pronunciation is nud-E-yard (the d in yard is soft like the French d). 

Using the pronunciation key it would read as naDiyaad
In Devanagari it would read as नडियाद 

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