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Sunday, January 29, 2012

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 

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