Silver mounted badek for coments

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by fernando

Badek ... badik ... badiik. I see all three versions out there; which one would be correct ?
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Would anyone care to coment on it ?
I would be most gratefull.
Fernando

as we are transliterating a word from a non western language into a western phonetic alphabet, all of them are valid, as would other spellings with the same sound...even amongst native english speakers from differing countries, ie. USA, UK, Australia & NZ, the pronunciation of vowels, AEIOU (& sometimes Y) has drifted. i personally prefer 'badek' for my similar but lesser one ('badik' is used by buttin on the forum's sister Reference Site ) the 'badek' i was sold by a malaysian dealer was spelled 'badek' in his ads for it. (not this one tho)