Following up on my previous post, The English language: From India to US, here are a few more of the "what in American English means what in Indian English"
- Okra means Lady’s finger
- Three times is almost always referred to as Thrice
- Bi-weekly : Once every two weeks in the US, but twice a week in India. Indians prefer to use "fortnightly" to mean once every two weeks. Interestingly, both are correct uses of English.
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Aluminum means Aluminium – Interesting history explained at Wikipedia It says:
The United States adopted the -ium for most of the 19th century with aluminium appearing in Webster’s Dictionary of 1828. However, in 1892 Charles Martin Hall used the -um spelling in an advertising handbill for his new efficient electrolytic method for the production of aluminium, despite using the -ium spelling in all of his patents filed between 1886 and 1903. It has consequently been suggested that the spelling on the flier was a simple spelling mistake rather than a deliberate choice to use the -um spelling. Hall’s domination of production of the metal ensured that the spelling aluminum became the standard in North America, even though the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of 1913 continued to use the -ium version.
- to bring forward to an earlier time, antonym for "postpone" is prepone – definitely an Indian invention.
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