Why Indian English is different? You might have noticed that many Indiaspecific English words have inconsistent spellings for their sounds. Why does that happen? Why do we spell Ram as Rama and Mahabharat as Mahabharata? There is an interesting story behind this. The story of Schwa or the deletion of it. Let's understand how English changed the way we perceive certain words and what is the right way in this episode.

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Links if you want more:
Ram vs Rama thread:   / 1310829486347223040  
Schwa deletion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa_d...
Why South writes Th: https://www.quora.com/WhySouthIndia...
Other sounds: https://avtans.com/2022/05/10/anote...
Why isn't தமிழ் spelt "Thamizh": https://linguistics.stackexchange.com...

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:30 Were British idiots?
01:20 Sanskrit pronunciations
06:08 Other inconsistencies
07:47 Ghazal
08:54 Qutub Minar K vs Q
09:53 Extra h in South Indian languages
12:02 Tamil or Tamizh?
14:37 Gyan vs Dnyan
16:17 V vs W

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