It’s “Thiruvenkatanathapuram,” “Thiruvenkanathapuram.”
The New York Times is such a stickler for facts and truth?
Who knew?
Via NewsBusters:
….Correction: March 15, 2016
An earlier version of this article misspelled in one instance the name of a village in India where the family of Sri Srinivasan once lived. The village is Mela Thiruvenkatanathapuram, not Mela Thiruvenkanathapuram.The humor of that correction works at so many different levels. First of all, the utter seriousness in which the correction was made. Then there is the thought that somebody actually spotted the error of that village name and was sufficiently alarmed to notify the New York Times. Of course, the Times could have quietly made a correction that nobody would have noticed but noooooo, they had to subject itself to hilariious mockery by actually printing out a formal correction for all to laugh at. Oh, and can you beat the loooooong name of that town? By the fifth, sixth, or seventh vowel, most people would be completely tongue-tied. However, the article itself provides this handy dandy guide for correct pronunciation:
This village, pronounced MAY-la THEE-roo VEN-ka-ta NA-tha POO-ram, has a deserted feel…
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Newspaper of Wreckord.
(To complete my thought…)
When you’re the Newspaper of Wreckord, you can’t afford to alienate a single subscriber.