"The Battle of Bataan" heard as

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Elijah

As in "_Elizha_ Wood," despite the fact that the name was pronounced
as spelled for probably more than a millenium.

Back in the '70's, there was a TV series on the former British Raj.
The narrator, an Englishman, continually made reference to the "…
Rahzh." Aren't transliterations of Indic consonants based on English?
Hence, you'd expect "… Rahdzh." Well, *I* would, anyway.

Youneverknow.


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