In India,while being the most spoken language in the metros,English is still kind of a stranger to us.Listening to different people speak English here is a very interesting activity.There are so many accents and grammatical styles that you can no longer tell which one is correct.The other day,our engineering electromagnetics professor,while explaining to us the concept of electric flux,announced majestically;"The morer the charge,the morer the flux".

We had an English lecturer in our Pre-university college,who used to speak impeccable British english and didn't tolerate mistakes in grammar.We students, coming from differwent educational backgrounds,were an unruly lot who didn't care two hoots for "precisely spoken" language.For us,slang was the norm,be it any language.We used to drive the poor lecturer up the wall.He didn't take our class in the second year.(He used to scold us in pure English using long, complicated-sounding words.I'm not sure if all of my classmates understood that he was reprimanding us. :-))