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To: Red Badger

“Kolkata”

Is that how they’re trying to get me to say Calcutta? Ain’t gonna happen, fellas, not on my watch.


16 posted on 07/28/2017 11:05:23 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: South Hawthorne

The Indian government has renamed the cities that the Brits had anglicized: Mumbai is Bombay, Kolkata is Calcutta, etc........


23 posted on 07/28/2017 11:09:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: South Hawthorne

I suspect you still say Bom-Bay, too...


104 posted on 07/28/2017 5:00:35 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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