Today's Guardian (A Newspaper in England)
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It was meant as a very public statement of love and affection. But last
night David Beckham was left with a face as red as his Manchester United
shirt after it emerged that a tattoo on his arm bearing his wife Victoria's
name in Hindi has been misspelt. The letter H was
incorrectly included, leaving his wife's name reading as VIHCTORIA. Hindi
experts in Britain spotted the mistake yesterday after Beckham was
photographed wearing a T-shirt showing off the misspelt tattoo, done in
Hindi because he liked the look of the language. Padmesh Gupta, president 
of the United Kingdom Hindi committee and editor of Purvai, a Hindi language
magazine said: "Whoever wrote this tattoo is clearly not a Hindi expert.
There is no H in Victoria when it is written in Hindi." A spokesman for the
Hindi department at the Indian High Commission in central London said:
"Victoria is a name that we are used to writing in Hindi because of Queen
Victoria. I can assure you that there is no H in Victoria. "But the tattoo
is quite artistic and it is good that Hindi is getting this sort of
publicity." Beckham's agents appeared bemused yesterday over the spelling
and the word Hindi itself. A spokeswoman for Outside Organisation, which
looks after Beckham's
non-footballing interests, said with authority: "You have to understand 
that there is a difference between Hindi and Hindu. The tattoo has been checked by a Hindu
expert. It's not as if David Beckham just walked into a tattoo parlour and got it done.
It was carefully designed." When told that Hindi is a language and Hindu a
religion, the spokeswoman insisted: "We know the tattoo is spelt correctly." A 
spokeswoman for SFX,
which looks after Beckham's football interests, said: "Oh dear, I'll have 
to tell David there's a mistake on his arm next time he telephones in."
 

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