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Monday, February 15, 2016

Commonly mispronounced words 59 - Ravindra Jadeja

We have had two major cricketers with this surname, yet this continues to be mispronounced across all news channels. In fact, even I am guilty of mispronouncing it at times. I finally had to use a mnemonic to fix my mispronunciation. There was a famous film song from Kallicharan. The song was "Jaa re jaa oh harjaai". Now I do not get the pronunciation wrong as I use this as an aide memoire :)

The correct pronunciation is

jar-day-jar (Using respelling, non rhotic pronunciation of jar)
jaaDeejaa (Using pronunciation key)
जाडेजा (Devanaagari)

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