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What's the American or British English equivalent to "take a download from", meaning get to know the information from someone?
In Indian English, we often use the phrase "take a download from" which isn't common outside India or at least South Asia. This phrase means to get to know the information from someone.
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Is 'peasant' generally considered derogatory?
Is peasant when used in general to describe a modern socioeconomic class considered to be derogatory?
Apparently there is no issue when talking about European history...
I read in the Brtitannica ...
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Does "tuition classes" mean the same in US English US as it does in Indian English?
I am trying to write a sentence that says how others had the capability to pay for extra classes other than school to get better learning.
My peers always had their parents who could pay for tuition ...
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Is modern 'five countries' English the only type of English with stress patterns that change across the entire word depending on the suffix?
The capital letters represent where the main stress in each word lies
TELephone, telePHONic, teLEphony.
PHOTograph, photoGRAphic, photOgraphy.
biOLogy, bioLOGical.
What about in the past, including ...
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Apostrophes in Grammar [duplicate]
In the sentence- "Jessie's and Nora's dogs are lovely".
Do we really have to put apostrophes on both the names?
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She is his would be/ wife to be
In India there is a tendency to call a woman or a man as would be in the sense of his future wife or her future husband.
She is his would be ( wife)
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Indian - mother tongue influence [closed]
I'm an Indian who has huge mother tongue influence while speaking English. I have to talk to Americans due to my job.
I frequently use "like this only" & "like that only" while speaking to ...
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What is meaning of "Wrestling words into submission"? [closed]
I came across a sentence which goes "I knew I wasn't meant to spend my life locked away in a silent room alone and half-crazed, wrestling words into submission."
Can some please tell me what it means?...
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What does "straggle on his chin" means?
What does "straggle on his chin" mean?
As I shook his hand, a kid cruising by—no more than a sophomore, judging by the fresh crop of pimples and the serio-comic straggle on his chin that aspired to ...
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Is it OK to use two consecutive 'that' in a sentence? [duplicate]
Is the usage of 2 consecutive 'that' in the following sentence correct, because it looks a bit odd? Should these be separated by comma perhaps?
"While I agree that strength and size definitely gives ...
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Annexure usage in Writing
I have been seeing the use of Annexure and Appendix for quite a while. My understanding of Appendix is that it's the information the writer forgot or discovered after writing about a topic and using ...
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Meaning of these phrases
What is the meaning of "long way out" and "long way yet"?
Like in a sentence ::
We are all aware that our country has achieved self sufficiency in food but we have to go a long way _____ in order to ...
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Why do Americans prefer to use the term grade instead of class?
I have noticed that Americans ask kids, Which grade are you in?, while Indians ask, Which class are you studying in?
The typical Indian reply would be, say, for example, I am a twelfth class student, ...
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The word Hindu in American English
I, as an Indian, am often surprised when the Americans use the word Hindu, when they actually mean
The country of India
The Indian subcontinent
The Hindi language (possibly)
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Usage of word "friends" [duplicate]
This is from a news article:
"Mr. Trump’s desire to be friends with the “short and fat” ruler of North Korea"
My doubt is that, can we use friends here because friend seems better here. Other ...
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