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Entries from September 2007

An army, navy and newspaper

September 16th, 2007 No Comments

A British newspaper prints an article bemoaning the strangicisms of Indian English:

But such phrases are entrenched. A driver, when asked what he does, may refer to his occupation as “drivery”. He keeps his “stepney” spare tyre in the “dicky” boot.
How disgraceful that the British would mangle our language so.

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