One of the Indianisms is 'upliftment'.
Newspapers don't think twice when they report a minister speaking about improving the status of the poor, the socially deprived. The idea is uplifting, but not the word.
No dictionary, printed or online, has it. Nearest they come to is uplift, a verb, adjective, and a noun. A face is uplifted, be uplifted with reference to the ground, and move someone up on the social scale. The last is where Indians use it, 'upliftment'.
Does it correct because it is used often? Then why has it not entered the dictionaries in decades and more of that usage?
Apparently is it used elsewhere, as in Jamaica. A comment Merriam-Webster online has this: " I have been searching for the word 'upliftment that is commonly used in Jamaica, but it does not appear in the Oxford Dictionary." Nor have I.
Newspapers don't think twice when they report a minister speaking about improving the status of the poor, the socially deprived. The idea is uplifting, but not the word.
No dictionary, printed or online, has it. Nearest they come to is uplift, a verb, adjective, and a noun. A face is uplifted, be uplifted with reference to the ground, and move someone up on the social scale. The last is where Indians use it, 'upliftment'.
Does it correct because it is used often? Then why has it not entered the dictionaries in decades and more of that usage?
Apparently is it used elsewhere, as in Jamaica. A comment Merriam-Webster online has this: " I have been searching for the word 'upliftment that is commonly used in Jamaica, but it does not appear in the Oxford Dictionary." Nor have I.
