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�Bogeebil� is the correct spelling: Prof Dutta

By Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, Dec 25 - Urging the State government and all concerned not to write the spelling of the name of the new bridge on the Brahmaputra connecting Dhola and Sadiya as �Bogibeel�, public activist Prof Deven Dutta has said that for years the word Bogeebil (the correct word) � whether in reference to the place Bogeebil or to the bridge itself � had wrongly been spelt as Bogibeel.

�Irrespective of whether the bridge is named after some eminent personality or named as Bogeebil, the word Bogeebil should not be spelt as Bogibeel for any kind of reference � as has been the common and widespread practice,� he said.

Prof Dutta said the spelling �beel� used to mean a water-body (a small lake) had gained currency for being in use over a very long period of time, even though the correct spelling should have been �bil�. �The State government needs to ensure that any reference to the bridge is made as Bogeebil and not Bogibeel,� he said.

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