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To: DMaA who wrote (173591)7/14/2006 5:11:37 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793791
 
I haven't seen much news on TV lately but I did hear a few references to Mumbai, which was pronounced to rhyme with "eye," which is how I would have pronounced it, too, had I had occasion to utter the word. But then there was a speech my some Indian muckety-muck who pronounced it to rhyme with Bombay.

Then there’s the English habit (Is this peculiar to the English?)

No, I don't think it's peculiar to English. In the half dozen languages I've studied, all have their own names for at least some foreign places.
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