From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   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.   
      
      
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   Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
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