Philip,
The same Donald LaRocca gives a variant name of Dpa Dam as Sked Gri. Isn't it the very same Ke Tri that we knew as a definition for straight , parallel sided, hatchet-pointed blades?
You are right: academic phonetizations vs. "street" ones are always different. Professor Higgins made a living of it long time ago :-)))
And on top of it, local accents and dialects add yet another level of complexity /confusion. Australian English vs. Glaswegian, vs. Southern American, vs. Midwest vs " Brooklinese" or Bostonian etc, etc sound differently . And each of them would be transliterated differently by well -meaning educated persons of different ethnic backgrounds and different native languages.
Kilich, Klych or Kilij? Kard, Kord or Karud? Shashka or Chacheka?
That would be just a funny "name game" had it not been the mechanism of "creating" artificial terminology for the allegedly different variety of weapons we are dealing with.
Rather amusing, isn't it?
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