Indian English: Usages to be discouraged
Mahesh Vijapurkar has offered the following:
A correct word conveying the correct meaning the writer intended can be found in a dictionary, especially a good dictionary. But there are a few usages popular in Indian English writing that needs to be discouraged.
Here is a small list:
Return back to mean return. The back is redundant.
Fell down for fell. Something can fall upon something else, but it only falls from where that something is.
Revert for return to its original state when it was intended to say I shall come back to you on this.
Also, revert back is used - same error as for return back.
Yesterday evening for last evening.
Hair is found on several parts of the human body and it is referred to in singular to that which is found on the head. Elesewhere, it is hairs.
A correct word conveying the correct meaning the writer intended can be found in a dictionary, especially a good dictionary. But there are a few usages popular in Indian English writing that needs to be discouraged.
Here is a small list:
Return back to mean return. The back is redundant.
Fell down for fell. Something can fall upon something else, but it only falls from where that something is.
Revert for return to its original state when it was intended to say I shall come back to you on this.
Also, revert back is used - same error as for return back.
Yesterday evening for last evening.
Hair is found on several parts of the human body and it is referred to in singular to that which is found on the head. Elesewhere, it is hairs.
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