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Indianisms are a perfectly valid form of English – as are Americanisms – excluded only by rank snobbery. They should form part of our language’s global vocabulary

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English is the world’s dominant scientific language, yet it has no word for the distinctive smell of cockroaches. What happens though, if you have no words for basic scientific terms?