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While I am asking questions: is Bombay the city in which a commuter train is always said to be going either "up" or "down"? (And if so, which was is "up"?)
posted by GB at 5:45 PM
Thursday, November 09, 2006
While I am asking questions: is Bombay the city in which a commuter train is always said to be going either "up" or "down"? (And if so, which was is "up"?)
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This is not correct either. The last two letters should be connected.
I take it I have the right letters, then? Yes, the two consonants should collapse into a single contraction, but that part of writing in devanagiri seems not to have been programmed for mac. so I guess it will have to do. At any rate, from now on I put it into english as "Achchha."
By the way, the Korean word for "oops." Sounds the same (to me, anyway).
In England, traditionally , you always go "down" to the countryside and "up" to the cities -- particularly the snobby ones (London, Oxford, Cambridge..) I presume they exported this with all their other little class-reinforcement tricks.
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