PUNJAB
Sir,-I have several times now heard from the radio the pronunciation "Poonjahb" for Punjab, or, as it used to be spelled, Punjaub. But the standard English pronunciation invariably used by Europeans in India (and in England), is as the latter spelling or Punjawb. After all, as the geography books tell us, the division of the word is panj (punge) five, and ab (ahb), water: "(The Land of) the Five Rivers." The pronunciation "aw" for "broad" a in the second syllable is traditional and has become fixed in most of the older names and words derived from Indian lan-
guages:
J.H.R.
L.
(Karapiro Hydro).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 5
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