Random Observations in my two years of stay here in the
Cars are driven on the wrong side (left) of the road
Automatics instead of manual transmissions
There are neither power cuts nor water cuts
Phones get busy and not engaged (people get engaged)
The floor numbering begins at 1 instead of G (there is no ground floor)
Schedule is pronounced ‘ske dule’ instead of ‘shedule’
Patent is pronounced ‘Paatent’ instead of ‘Petent’
Beta is pronounced ‘Beyta’ instead of ‘Beeta’
Lifts are elevators.
Chappals are flipflops
Petrol pumps are Gas stations (no cars don’t run on gas here)
Color instead of colour
Gray instead of grey
mm/dd/yy instead of dd/mm/yy
Pound instead of kilogram
Gallon instead of liter
A car’s trunk is a ‘boot’ instead of ‘dicky’
Shuttle instead of badminton
Ping Pong instead of table tennis
Eraser instead of rubber (rubber has a totally different connotation and application)
A flat is an apartment (flat is used for indicating lack of contours)
A highway is a freeway (doesn’t mean there are no toll stations)
A cold drink is a soda
A dustbin is a trash can
A footpath is a curb
A cycle is a bike
And finally its paper instead of water!
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