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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Commonly mispronounced words 47 - Malaysia

The recent incident involving the missing plane has put Malaysia in the spotlight. Everyone in India pronounces the name of this country as mull-ay-she-yeah. Some pronounce it as mull-ay-zhuh or shuh. International channels generally prefer the former. 

The correct authentic pronunciation is mull-ay-see-yeah. Using the pronunciation key this would be transliterated as maleesiaa. In Hindi, this would read as मलेसिया.

Recently, I had also featured the capital of Malaysia i.e., Kuala Lumpur in this series. You can read that entry here.

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