"Mumbai lingo is a bit different. There’s a lot of Hindi slang and it’s mostly abusive, but used a lot in the modeling circuit. [A fairly common term here] is ‘bombay docks’, used when a girl has bad body odour." (Mumbai model Sahil Shroff quoted in The slang bang! by Reshma Arya, DNA, December 4, 2006)
A guest Log post by Bob Ladd opened my eyes to a language issue I had never
noticed: A few days ago I received an editorial decision letter from a
journal,...