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thisisit 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox stor...

Indian dialect is derived from the colonial English. So, lot of words and usage can be found in British English.

ciceryadam 6 months ago [–]

I don't think that most of Brits are "doing the needful". Indian English has plenty of expressions that are exclusive to India.

Rinzler89 6 months ago | [–]

Pretty sure "why did you redeem it?!" is a British English slang from the victorian era :)

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