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Early 1600’s > East Indian Company Early 1800’s > English Education Early 1900’s > English official and academic language 3% of India’s population speaks English. Indian English Differences between BE – IE › stress on every syllable › dropping the -ed ending after /k/ - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
• Early 1600’s > East Indian Company• Early 1800’s > English Education• Early 1900’s > English official and academic language• 3% of India’s population speaks English
•Indian English
•Differences between BE – IE › stress on every syllable
› dropping the -ed ending after /k/ eg. Walked – walk
› IE -t- replaced by BE – th- rep eg. Worth – wort
› In RP, /r/ occurs only before a vowel. Indian English use /r/ in almost all positions. ›Tag questions:as in He's here, no? comes from hindi. They use it in every question they form.
• She received a reported £500,000 in advances and the rights to her book were sold in 21 countries. • She is the first non-expatriate Indian author and the first Indian woman to bag the booker prize • She left home at 16 and then lived in a squatters' camp, in a small hut with a tin roof, within the walls of Delhi's Ferozshah Kotl
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