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Showing posts with label indian english. Show all posts
Showing posts with label indian english. Show all posts
Saturday, May 4, 2013

What a 'hotel' can mean in India

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According to the Online Etymology Dictionary , the English word hotel  was first recorded in the 1640s and denoted a 'public official r...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

'X cum Y' construction

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Many English speakers would be familiar with the construction 'X cum Y' (where X and Y are nouns) to designate something or someone...
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Plans, programmes and projects

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Generally, if I wanted to know what someone else was up to at a later point in time, I'd probably ask them, "Do you have any plans ...
Friday, January 21, 2011

A more prosodic take on Indian English

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Today I was at one of Guwahati's few cafes asking the waitress for direction to another place that I suspected wasn't too far away....
Sunday, January 9, 2011

A take on Indian English

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I always say that NE India really isn't like the rest of India, but something that does remind me that I'm in India are the brands o...
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