[hm10]

Off topic, but it always amazes me how often I see Gandhi misspelled as Ghandi. I'm not American, so I am curious if they always teach this wrong spelling in schools? Check the other replies here. OP literally quoted the right spelling but still misspelled it later.

[angelzen]

'gh' is somewhat common in American English. ghost, ghetto, aghast. 'dh' is unheard of.

[graeme]

I thought about it, and in my case I think it’s because the pronunciation is unintuitive. You often hear people saying “Gandhi” like “Band”, which is wrong I think.

To write how you pronounce Gandhi you normally have words like “Khan” or “Ghana” etc. at least with the words I’m familiar with.

So it makes a switch I have to constantly manually remember. Possible I have the pronunciation wrong of course.