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by graeme 1745 days ago
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.