The 'H' factorEarlier in a blog of mine, I’d cribbed endlessly about my name. This is on similar lines. My name’s spelt S A T H Y A. But often someone eats up the ‘H’ and it’s amputated to the unaccustomed length of Satya. So I often end up insisting that the H be there. My northie friends were somehow baffled by the whole account; why does your name have a ‘H’?...you pronounce it Satya; (t as in Tava) and not sattthhhya. Hey go slow on the ‘ttthhh’!!!! Now it has become a habit for me to spell out my name, as there's a 100% chance they would leave the poor 'H' out...'Yeah Sathya..Sierra Alpha Tango Hotel Yankee Alpha'....'Yeah...H for Hotel!' And one day on the corp bulletin board someone wanted to sell their ‘Maruthi’ and a debate followed soon enough on the presence or absence of h. My friend shruti is often irritated that their southie colleagues fatten her name with the ‘h’ (that they steal from mine?). One could say if a person is from the north or south merely by looking at how their name’s spelt…or rather mis-spelt :) But then northies pronounce dosa as ‘Dose-a’ and the souties for their part make Dal sound like ‘doll’. But then; this is one of those coffee/toffee arguments that go on….and is fun so long as they do :)
  4 Comments:LOL..It's the vitamin 'C' factor for me. Most of them spell it as karthick, stressing on the thickness.
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Same 'C' factor for me too...probably because we share the same name...
By WOW...u stole eggjactly my words :0 being a vidhya i also faced these problems..vidya in one place vidhya in another..add a shankar to that...which agains becomes sankar sanker..shanker..oooh...its a real pain....u can recount them as funny at a later stage..but for official purposes it really makes a mess of things
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Nice observation - absolutely true. As a northie, I cannot see the silent 'H' in Sathay or Vidhya or Gayathri. In fact my first rection is not to keep it silent :). Maybe you could enlighten me about the origins of these silent H in almost all the southie names?
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