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Re: doubt

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Ross Presser (rpresser@gmail.com) writes:
> Can I please have the address of the scholastic organization in
> India who is responsible for Indians using the word "doubt" 
> when they mean "question"? 

It is necessarily not an error. Even if the language is called English,
the usage is different in the US, the UK, India, Australia etc. For 
instance "to table something" means two opposite things in American
English and in British English. So while the use of "doubt" sounds funny
to a native speaker of American English or to a learned speaker of
British English like me, it may still be perfectly acceptable in
Indian English.

And, mind you, in terms of native speakers of English, India is the 
third biggest country after the US and UK, but before Canada and 
Australia.


-- 
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se

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doubt SUBBU N <nsubbu1986@gmail.com> - 2013-05-28 23:06 -0700
  Re: doubt Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2013-05-29 07:32 +0000
  Re: doubt SUBBU N <nsubbu1986@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 02:55 -0700
    Re: doubt Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2013-05-30 23:08 +0200
      Re: doubt rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2013-05-30 15:10 -0700
        Re: doubt Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2013-05-31 07:45 +0000
  Re: doubt Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 10:18 -0700
    Re: doubt Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2013-06-04 22:24 +0200
      Re: doubt Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 13:34 -0700

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