Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Timepass for chilling

Each part of the world has contributed words to English language from their repository of their own languages. Indian contribution includes use of some English words differently even if they do not yet find a place in the dictionaries like bandh, cummerbund etc have.

India Real Time of the Wall Street Journal has this interesting but small list of words used in India.

Read it here. It does not include words like backside for back of, for instance, saying 'backside of the building inside of back of building'. Backside is mostly to be used for a person's buttocks.