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How Do You Pronounce "Maldives"?
Ms_Chocaholic
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Rang my credit card company today and got put through to an Indian call centre. Fortunately I could understand the lady I got put through to (often I have difficulty with this).
When I told her where I was going on holiday, she spelt out the whole world and told me my pronunciation was incorrect !
Oooooooooo errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
How do you pronounce it, obviously I've been getting it wrong all these years.
Ms C x
When I told her where I was going on holiday, she spelt out the whole world and told me my pronunciation was incorrect !
Oooooooooo errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
How do you pronounce it, obviously I've been getting it wrong all these years.
Ms C x
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You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time
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mol - deves
Thats how I have always pronounce it, and heard it pronounced.Work like you don't need money,Love like you've never been hurt,And dance like no one's watchingSave the cheerleader, save the world!0 -
I say Mol Deeves too......is it meant to be Mal dives then??Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty...0
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Yep, worked in travel for over 20 years and it was pronounced mol - deeves. I'm sure thats not how the Indians say it though!0
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I said mol_deeves, she said it's spelt M A L D I V E S, that's Mal_dives !Thrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
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If you were telephoning India perhaps you should have pronounced it "Dhivehi Raajje" as that is what the Maldives are called.
Have not got a clue how to pronounce this though!
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Regardless of how it's pronounced in India you are using the English pronunciation.
It would be the same if you said you were going to Rome and an Italian said you should pronounce it Roma.
I don't believe its the place of a call centre worker to correct someone's English.
How would they know if it was a regional variation of an English word or that the person simply pronounced it incorrectly because that's the way they had always said it. You ring up a call centre to have service not English lessons.Debt free (apart from mortgage)0 -
Precisely. She didn't speak the Queen's English herself !!!Thrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
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They do in Dheli. Many Indians in Delhi speak better English than us.0
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i say mawldeevs
and when i was there that was how all the staff in the hotels pronounced it.'Children are not things to be moulded, but are people to be unfolded'0 -
jillie1974 wrote: »i say mawldeevs
and when i was there that was how all the staff in the hotels pronounced it.
That makes you sound incredibly posh dahling :rotfl:
I pronounce it Mol deeves too0
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