hi,
sorry I am not following the thread but just to clarify.
Bombay/Mumbai
- Britishers when they arrived in India named city/village called "Mumba Devi"
(which is same "Mumbai" mean
Goddess Mumba in marathi) to "Bombay"
Name change was due to renaming cities to there original names.
- Sandeep
"Reynolds, Gregg" wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeroen Hellingman [mailto:jehe@kabelfoon.nl]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 12:02 PM
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Everson <everson@indigo.ie>
> > To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
> > Date: Thursday, October 07, 1999 14:24
> > Subject: Re: Burma/Myanmar
> >
> > Peking "Beijing" or
> > >>Bombay "Mumbai"?.
> > >
> > >For the last two, I think there's nothing wrong with us
> > updating to more
> > >correct pronunciations than those cogged together by civil
> > servants of the
> > >British Empire. Pinyin is _convenient_, and why not use it for all
> >
> > The change from Bombay to Mumbai has nothing to do with British
> > officials having it wrong. Bombay is Bambai in Hindi, and Mumbai in
> > Gujarati and Marathi -- the latter two languages are much more common
>
> "Bollywood" in the vernacular, isn't it?
>
> BTW, somebody (I think it was this list, anyway) wrote something about the
> XML/Ancient Languages confab being held at the Oriental Institute in Chicago
> tomorrow and Saturday. Now I can't find the note, so whoever you are, shoot
> me an email if you'd like to grab a pint afterwards. And be sure to visit
> the basement bookstore across the street - best humanities/socsci bookstore
> on the globe.
>
> -gregg
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