Hello Swishsticks,

there is no typo error in Dr. Silva's book. The two letters do exist.
For reasons not mentioned, Ven. Narada excluded them in the
pronunciation guide.

As much as I know about Pali pronunciation, which I am really poor
at, putta is pronounced put-tah.

metta,
Yong Peng

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, swishsticks wrote:
I'm a beginner, starting out with De Silva's Primer. I'm a bit
confused about her pronunciation guide; specifically, she has the
following:
t is pronounced like th in thumb
d " " " th in they

When I compare this to Narada's Elementary Course, he doesn't have
these two letters, only the forms with a dot underneath them.

Do these two letters actually exist, or is it a typo on someone's
part? How is a word like 'putta' pronounced, for example?