[BITList] Can you believe this???!!! Good grief!!!!

[John Feltham]

   Oye BADMASH, KISS MY CHUDDIES!!!!

Hindi words invade new Oxford dictionary
London: English is being spiced up with a sprinkling of some more  
words from Hindi.

In the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, there is  
already a host of Hindi words,
including 'Angrez' (English person) and 'badmash' (naughty) while many  
more are being entered
into the Collins Bank of English, which screens words for entry.

The Hindi words likely to find a place in the English dictionary are:  
achha (OK, or is that so?), aloo
(Indian potato), arre (used to express surprise), CHUDDI (underwear),  
desi (local, indigenous),
filmi (related to Bollywood), very filmi (drama queen or king), gora  
(white person), jungli
(uncultured) and yaar (friendly form of address).

According to a report in 'The Observer' Arfaan Khan, a linguist based  
at Reading University, told a
major conference at the University of Newcastle this month to expect a  
"whole new dialect" to
emerge.

"This will be an increasing trend," said Jeremy Butterfield, editor-in- 
chief of the Collins dictionaries.

"If new words are used enough, they will end up in the dictionary, and  
once they are there they
become English words, too. With our increasingly multi-cultural  
society, in 50 years English will
have adopted a mass of words from all the different cultures living on  
this island."

And those who complain about the loss of the purity of the language  
are simply misguided,
according to experts.

"English is a mongrel language, and always has been," said Bufferfield.

ooroo

Bad typists of the word, untie.




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