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Subject: Re: [devaram] ThirumuRai Series - 64
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--- In agathiyar@y..., Subramanian Ganesh
> Subject: Re: [devaram] ThirumuRai Series
It's actually tevaram, not "devaram".
To be exact, tEvAram.
When someone calls devaram, it sounds like
writing "balli" instead of "palli" (=wall-lizard).
The "voicing" in balli, devaram may be OK
for Telugu. But Tamils say it as tEvAram.
Listen to any OtuvAmUrttikaL.
Another funny thing is the habit of
writing -g- invaribly wherever -k- occurs.
For example, nowadays akam, pronounced as
aham by Tamils, is written in english papers
and on the net as agam!!!
aTikaL, as in iLaGkO aTikaL, is written as
aDihaL by V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar
in his Cilambu translation. Nowadays you
see aDigaL!
Monolingual Tamils pronounce Murukan as Muruhan.
Food for thought.
Kind regards,
N. Ganesan
