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Inglish As She Is Spaken
5 July 2010You’ve got to love Inglish. Only we always “court arrest” (instead of fair damsels). Rains always “lash the city” (hear it now: whip! whip! whip!). And our netas are always air-dashing to Delhi to meet the High Command before a charge-sheeter with back-combed hair and a wheatish complexion (as opposed to Basmatish?) jumps into the “dicky” and becomes an absconder. » moreIt Never Reigns, But It Pores
16 July 2010In the last week, I’ve read in at least two places that someone is “pouring over” books or photographs or something. “Pore”, not “pour”, stupid. You pour tea. When it rains, it pours. You can’t “pour” over a book or a picture — unless you want to make it very, very wet. “To pore over”: to read or study carefully and attentively. You pore over a book while you pour tea. Get it? You have to admire the courage of these morons. It must be a wonderful life, wherever they live, that land without a dictionary or a spell-checker. » more
