OT Pronunciation of _Galle_ (was: YAPT)

Paul Bennett wrote:

> What's bugging the hell out of me is the BBC news, who
> insist on refering to the town I thought was /'g@l`:e/
> as /g&li:/
On the Swedish news they call it /go:l/, so now I'm utterly
confused, since I've always assumed /'g@l:e/ based on the
standard way of romanizing Indic words.

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/BP 8^)>
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