Another common mispronunciation (मिसप्रोंन्सीऐशन)
Incorrect: कमेन्ट
Correct: कॉमेन्ट (Emphasis in bold)
The “co” has a कॉ sound, not क. Isn’t English confusing? 🙂
This is a commonly mispronounced set of words among the IT community in India.
Incorrect: डेवलप डेवलोप (emphasis in bold)
Correct: डिवेलप (all syllables with equal emphasis)
Incorrect: डेवलपर डेवलोपर (emphasis in bold)
Correct: डिवेलपर (all syllables with equal emphasis)
Incorrect: डेवलपमेंट डेवलोपमेंट (emphasis in bold)
Correct: डिवेलपमेंट (all syllables with equal emphasis)
Finextra reported on a Reserve Bank of India document that says in part,:
The working group further goes on to recommend that the RBI “consider moving over to chip based cards along with requiring upgradation of necessary infrastructure like ATMs/POS terminals in this regard in a phased manner”.
The RBI is not by any means the first Indian entity to use this clumsy word. It isn’t in any English dictionary. The correct word is “upgrade” (noun). Of course, the document is full of other errors. The above paragraph can be written as follows:
“consider moving over to chip–based cards, along with an upgrade to the related infrastructure such as ATMs/POS terminals in a phased manner”.
Generally, most Times of India posts attributed to “TNN” show signs of poor English. Here are some posts that persist in using “upgradation”
The Wayback Machine or archive.org served a good purpose. In its early years it tried to keep a copy of many pages from websites great and small. People who inadvertently deleted their website were able to recover some of the content through it. More recently (five years ago, not five weeks), it couldn’t cope with the quantity of pages and people complained when it hadn’t indexed their pages. Many SEOs blocked its spider from their sites.
When I checked some well-known sites, I was surprised that they hadn’t been archived for some years:
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