Words that aren't

This is a fun game.

Bellow are a few words/phrases that you think you heard when you were talking to people in English. 

Now, you have to guess what the actual word was:

(Answers are below, but hey.. give it an honest try)

The word/phrase as you heard it:

1) SOO-GAR 
(clue: SOO-GAR and Spice)

2) POUR-POUJ 
(clue: What is the POUR-POUJ of this file)

3) SHITTIES(T) (you'll be sure you heard the 'T' in the end)
(clue: TCS, Infosys and SHITTIES are big companies)

4) ANNA-ROD
(clue: Operating systems like IOS and ANNA-ROD)

5) BLINK
(clue: Fill in the BLINKS)
6) FANT
(clue: Shirt and FANT)
7) BHEZZ
(clue: Non-Veg and BHEZZ food)

8) SEWER 
(clue: Are you SEWER about this?)
9) IS-WHO 
(clue: IS-WHO a cheque)
10) IS-COOL
(clue: which IS-COOL is your son studying in?)
11) CUSHION 
(clue: answer the following CUSHIONS)
12) RISQUE
(clue: RISQUE the hostages) 
13) SAFE
(clue: i like this program - master SAFE Australia)
14) SILLY
(clue: SILLY cheese toast)
15) FUTURE
(clue: She has sharp FUTURES on her face)

16) MAX
(clue: science and MAX exams)
17) RAPE
(clue: RAPE me in your arms   a shawl can be RAPED around) 
18) EGG-JAM
(clue: Math EGG-JAM)

19) PRIES
(clue: you want some PRIES with that?)

And the answers (if you still need them):

1) Sugar

2) Purpose

3) CTS - short for Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS should check every propective candidate if he or she gets the company name right first, else it might be bad advertisement)

4) Android
5) Blank
6) Pant
7) Veg (Its like some one threw a grenade in the mouth.. and just as 'Veg' was going to be said .. the grenade went off)
8) Sure
9) Issue
10) School
11) Question
12) Rescue
13) Chef 
14) Chilly 
15) Features 
16) Maths 
17) Wrap 
18) Exam 
19) Fries

Confusions of India - t and th

So whats the whole confusion with the t and th you ask?

Take a name for instance : Ajit, Ajith

People from the north of India are always wondering why the southies are spelling the name with an extra h in the end. And the people from the south wonder why the northies cut the word short of a sound.

Most people who have done some linguistic studies or know both languages will know the answer to this one straight.. Or if you don't give a shit at all, you can probably read some other stuff here.

The problem is that Hindi has more sounds that what can be supported by the English script.

The 4 letters थ, त, ट, ठ are mapped to only two English equivalents namely - t and th.

Now if you have passed basic arithmetic, you'll deduce that 4 is not mappable with 2.

On the other hand, some south Indian scripts (not Bombay you twit, Dravidian script) for instance Tamil, has only the two sounds त and ट. Yes there is no equivalent sound for थ or ठ in the script.

(Why? because those two sounds are not required to be made while solving the Schrodinger equation.)

So in Tamil it becomes simple - t stands for ट and th stands for त.

where t and th are pronounced exactly as in English. 

t as in melt    &    th as in wealth

Coming back to Ajit and Ajith. 

If spelt Ajit and were to be read out using the standard English sounds would turn out to be अजिट.

Just like Submit would be read out as सबमिट 

Only if it were spelt Ajith, will it be correctly pronounced - अजित 

Just like wealth would be pronounced - वेल्त

Face it, if you see the board Thane in Bombay .. and if you've never heard of that name .. you're gonna end up reading it as तेन and not ठाणे !!

Ideally Hindi should use the capitals of English to map their sounds completely:

Hence t would be ट, T would be ठ, th would be त and TH would be ठ.

ठाणे would then be spelt as THaNe

That would keep the difficulty in pronunciation and the fights between north and south of India a little less.

If you still didn't get it, then I Bret you're the kind that thinks Himesh Reshammiya is best there is, was and ever will be.

- humble me