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A photograph of the road sign
An enthusiastic young amateur photographer who also keeps an eye on this column sent me the picture alongside after reading my reference to Pugh’s Road (Miscellany, February 11). Apparently the road now has been renamed Sundaram Road. I have no
idea who Sundaram is, though there is a TVS property across from the start of the road that might have something to do with it, but my correspondent thinks it is a name that derives from the huge Sathya Sai Baba shrine and complex that has come up on the road on what was Anjali Devi’s property. But what intrigued me is what has been made of poor Pugh (pronounced ‘pew’, in the original). It might locally have been pronounced ‘Pug’ Road, but it’s now become ‘Bughs Road’ in English and ‘Pucks Road’ in Tamil! In fact, Poe’s Road in Teynampet was ‘Pois Road’ on its signboards when I last saw them, Poes rhyming with ‘goes’ beginning to rhyme in the signs with a two-syllabled ‘bo-ys’! And then, of course, there’s that old chestnut; Graeme’s Road is anything but that, the variations today including Greames Road and Greams Road.
S. MUTHIAH
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