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In response to "Oh, I was aware of the Mumbai one, but not the others. I assume they moved away from colonial era westernised mispellings?" by celedhrymandias

Yes - though often they weren't so much mispellings as just attempts to write strange words in a different language

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Nov 27 '08, 10:12
But there are other reasons too. Bombay is thought to derive from the Portuguese for 'good bay', and Mumbai is the way Marathis pronounced it.

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