Progress Of Indic Languages Vs English - 2

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I need some kind of ruling. One of my friends corrected another friend when he pronounced the word "satyam" as "sachyam". The guy's, who was corrected , mother tongue is telugu. My position was that some folks from Andhra have the practice of such pronunciation, and one can not say it is wrong.

What do the gurus here feel about such pronunciation differences? My friend who corrected feels that there are two issues involved: one that it was wrong and the other being the acceptability of the practice. So he contends it might be acceptable for some folks, but it is still a wrong pronunciation.

My stance is, since it is not one or two folks who have this practice, and there are lots of people with such substitution in every language one can not necessarily rule this as being right or wrong.

And any added history and etymology of the substituting of 'ch' for the 't' is welcome.

thanks.