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To: Dead Corpse; zzeeman; HKMk23

One of the more interesting thing about working with a large cohort of people from India is all the English-isms that we never use that they still do.

I just saw an email saying, “Please find the documents you requested attached herewith.”

You don’t read “hearwith” very often.


8,773 posted on 08/07/2026 11:30:45 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: ArGee

Won $5 off my Son over the word ostrobogulous. He was convinced I’d made it up.

I’m a huge fan of Shakespeare, so his misapprehension was somewhat warranted. The Bard was famous for inventing new words/phrases.


8,780 posted on 08/07/2026 1:43:59 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: ArGee

Are the Indians that you work with in India? I wonder if the use of British English is particular to certain castes...


8,782 posted on 08/07/2026 5:14:07 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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