{"id":1633,"date":"2020-08-01T21:14:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T15:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2021-08-11T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T07:34:53","slug":"spelling-malayalam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/spelling-malayalam","title":{"rendered":"Spelling Malayalam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today afternoon, while I was browsing through the website of the Department of Pre-university Education, Karnataka<\/a>\u00a0for text books available for the pre-university classes, \u00a0something on the site caught my attention. Malayalam, my mother tongue, was listed as a language taught for the first year pre-university classes. There was also a text book \u2014 \u2018Malayala Manjari<\/em>\u2019 \u2014 listed on the site as one of the books in the syllabus.\u00a0What was more interesting was how Malayalam<\/strong> was spelled on both \u2014 the webpage and the title page of the book.<\/p>\n

\"Pue<\/p>\n

\"Malayala<\/p>\n

The spelling on the web site was \u201cMalaylam<\/strong>\u201d (missing an \u2018a<\/strong>\u2019) and the spelling on the book title was \u2018Malayalayam<\/strong>\u2019 (an extra \u2018y<\/strong>\u2019 and an extra \u2018a<\/strong>\u2019).<\/p>\n

We all make typos. So the idea of this post is not to point out the mistake or to ridicule \u2014 but to give a tip on how to avoid this mistake. \u201cMALAYALAM<\/strong>\u2019 \u2014 the word when spelled in English \u2014 is a Palindrome<\/strong>. So after you type the word, try to read it both ways.<\/p>\n

A palindrome is \u201ca word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards, e.g.\u00a0madam\u00a0or\u00a0nurses run”. “The word palindrome is derived from the Greek ‘palin,’ or “back” and ‘dromos’ or “direction.” The actual Greek phrase\u00a0alluded\u00a0to the backward movement of the crab\u201d. \u2014 Read more on Palindromes on Example.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The funny part is, there are several instances of this mistake on several websites \u2014 even on Amazon titles. See the following example:<\/p>\n

\"malayalam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today afternoon, while I was browsing through the website of the Department of Pre-university Education, Karnataka\u00a0for text books available for the pre-university classes, \u00a0something on the site caught my attention. Malayalam, my mother tongue, was listed as a language taught for the first year pre-university classes. There was also a text book \u2014 \u2018Malayala Manjari\u2019…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,96],"tags":[13,34],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-malayalam","tag-language","tag-malayalam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}