Someone, who objects to spelling Diwali with a W shared this. Says it should be DiVali instead and explains why.
It has become a practice not to spell DiVali correctly and you must have picked it up what's on the internet.
In Hindi/Devanagri script there is no “W” sound, it’s a “V” sound. So the correct spelling in English from a Hindi sound is DiVali not DiWali.
All Hindi words are with “V” – MadhaVan, Vishnu, Veda, Verma, Vijay, “vapas”, “vahan”, “vishvas” “vo”, etc. Hindi does not have a “W” sound of “Wo”
Please correct your vocabulary and encourage your friends to start writing "Divali", and not "Diwali"
Interesting :-)
DiVali with family and friends was fun - rangoli ke raang see rangeen, burfi se bhi meethi aur fuljhadi ke tarhein cham chamati
1 comment:
Beautiful and interesting about the V in Diwali!:-).. but what about wahan...wahi...waqt....wah bhai!!
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