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David Crystal, author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, admits that the global standard English might routinely say "I am thinking it is going to rain" rather than the British "I think it’s going to rain." I think a step ahead of Mr Crystal. The British will have to finally accept "My head is eating circles" when someone wants to say "Mera sar chakkar kha raha hai". When someone says, "Lalu is straightening his owl", he would mean "Lalu apna ullu sidha kar raha hai." There are more people speaking English in India than in the rest of the native English-speaking world. Now Indians should have the first right to tell others how to speak English. Once an Indian immigrant in Canada took her child Bittu to the doctor. The doctor asked her what was wrong with the child. The woman said, "Pata nahin doctor sahib, eh na eatda hai na sleepda hai only weepda hai ." Since then the doctor is taking classes in gulabi English.
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people switch over to talking in gulabi English as soon as a
Patiala peg goes down their throat. But the good news is that soon
Indian characteristics may end the primacy of American English.