'Decide' is forerunner to a 'final decision'?

You 'decide' on doing something. Is that a prelude to a 'final decision' to come later?

A blurb to an interview of K Keshava Rao, a Congress leader in Andhra Pradesh says "in this interview with Rediff.com 's Vicky Najappa, Rao says that he has decided to join the TRS, but would wait until Thursday night before taking a final decision"

I suppose when you decide, it is final. Or you are only considering deciding to do something.

Read the interview and it would emerge that the blurb could have said Rao was edging toward a decision but dependent on how the powers that be in Congress and the Government respond to a demand for quick decision on formation of Telangana.

It is equivocation containing  threat to the party for its dilly-dallying.

We need to decide, finally, how we use the word without a qualifier.

Comptroller - the 'p'?

With Vinod Rai, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) having retired, we are less likely to read and hear about that office for few, even if in a Constitutional office, attract such attention as he had because of his report on G2 telephony and the presumptive loss of 1.7 lakh crore.

It was so often used that CAG, an abbreviation became the norm for referring to the office, even in the first reference breaking a journalistic norm, that very few had to grapple with Comptroller, with a p. How is it pronounced? We in India do bring that p when uttering it. Do we need to?

We needn't.The Merriam-Webster online dictionary's audio facility excludes that p. Try it here. The freedictionary which provides audio support for both British and American pronunciation too skips the p. Click on the Union Jack.

The Oxford Dictionaries, online, explains that its origin is "late 5th century: variant of CONTROLLER, by erroneous association with French compte 'calculation' or its source, later Latin comptus"