It seemed to be very funny to me initially and I used to think that it is just one or two persons inability and laziness to make proper use of their lip muscles and in the process just pronouncing it as "bhee" instead of 'V'.
Slowly I started identifying patterns and came to a conclusion that it was only with the uneducated class or the pan and gutka eating ones or with the ones who are not properly exposed to good grammar and proper English concepts.
But the more time I spent here the more confused I have got, I still try to find patterns but I feel I should just give up now , coz it is everywhere. I talk about this with my wife and she thinks I am just exaggerating, although I know that she knows I am right.
Been here for more than two months now and I have found so many names change their pronunciation , over such long periods of time that today nobody would believe that it has been changed at all.
Let's see some examples
I write this from the city of Bhubaneswar which ideally should be Bhuvaneshwar, Vasant rutu has a festival called Vasant Panchami which is now gladly called Basant Panchami.
Vikram became Bikram and Vishal is now Bishal, Dhruv is now known as Dhrub.
The list can go onn
Its as if you can observe Evolution in one lifespan. Initially one could only hear people mispronounce V as B and it was only in the spoken form but as time passed it became so prominent that today people even write it as B.
Its like people here want to phase out the usage of letter V.
I am still not able to figure out why ,but the closest reason I feel it could be is because to say V you need to use a couple of more muscles in your lip.
Its like people here are so lazy moving a muscle in the lip is also a pain. Although I could be wrong and there could be a explanatory reason but I am yet to find that.
Also I am still trying to find a word in the English language where this change has actually changed the meaning of the word so as to support my argument
The best example so far ,Biwi has now become Bibi and I think Punjabi's have a different meaning to that word they use it to refer to a lady.
P.S.: I could have been a lawyer
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