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		thisisit 11 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 11 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 11 months ago | [–]

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

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