dh-is not an English combination, but, in the English spelling of (East) Indian words, is used to represent the Indian dental sonant-aspirate, in the Devanāgarī alphabet dha, also the lingual or cerebral sonant-aspirate, more exactly written ḍha. In earlier spelling by Europeans these sounds were commonly represented by simple d, and in the general rectification of this to dh, the latter has been erroneously extended to several words having simple da dental or ḍa lingual, or to words not really Indian, apparently under the notion that an oriental appearance is given to a word by spelling it with dh. Words thus erroneously spelt with dh are dhooly, dhow, dholl, dhoney, dh(o)urra, dhurrie.