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The meaning of "come home"
In India, when I ask a friend to "come home", it often means I am inviting the friend to my home. I am told that this is different in England or the US, where native speakers would use "...
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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.
For ...
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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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Can Practice (verb) and Practise (verb) indicate two different meanings?
I recall that at school (in the late 1960s/early 1970s) in England I was taught how and when to use Practice and Practise. What I was taught was this:
Practice, when used as a verb, means to do ...
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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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Pronunciation of "intermediate" as /ɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdʒɪt/?
I've heard both "intermediate" and "immediate" pronounced /ɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdʒɪt/ and /ɪˈmiːdʒɪt/ respectively in Indian English. Wiktionary has /ɪˈmiːdʒɪt/ as an alternative pronunciation for immediate for ...
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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)
He is ...
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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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British South Asian accent
This is a two-part question. A lot of British South Asian that are born and bred in the UK have a peculiar accent. It's very different than the familiar Indian accent too. So my question is...
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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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On the double meaning of evaluation
I know that evaluation can refer to both the process and the result, but when you say something is an evaluation of another thing, like fact is evaluation of claim (forgive the choppiness, the ...
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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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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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