Indian English words
Words like “godown” are hard enough to find, but another word I just noticed I’d heard often and never seen in print:
Stepney. On Encarta dictionary, a list of unusual words, and something on the BBC site.
"Consign them to dust and damp by way of preserving them"
Words like “godown” are hard enough to find, but another word I just noticed I’d heard often and never seen in print:
Stepney. On Encarta dictionary, a list of unusual words, and something on the BBC site.
The word stepney is used in India, as well as in Egyptian Arabic[9] (in which it is pronounced إسْتِبْن), to refer the spare tyre of a car, after Stepney Tyre & Rubber Co Ltd’s[1] popular spare motor wheel, which was invented by Walter Davies in 1904. The company was named after Stepney Street, Llanelli, Wales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepney
Sanjay
Sun, 2008-05-04 at 19:50:49 +05:30
Oh nice, thanks! I hadn’t noticed it on that article.
Shreevatsa
Sun, 2008-05-04 at 19:59:02 +05:30