OMG, and I also did not know lakh, I'm afraid I'll never master English well enough. :(

> I'm afraid I'll never master English well enough. :(

“English is just badly pronounced French.” ;-)

(Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) – French Prime Minister)

Cheers Rolf
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I'd also complain about any Texan, Geordie or Outback slang.

And yes I knew lakh already, I don't see the point in obliging most readers here to look it up in a dictionary.

Standard English means ... being understood world wide.

Basic English was an interesting effort along these lines, and apparently still survives in some forms. Unfortunately, any language standardization effort (update: and Basic English was, I think, primarily intended as a teaching tool) is up against the fact that all languages continually evolve. So we may all be talking about "lakhs of this-and-that" in ten or twenty years. (And it occurs to me to wonder about the relationship, if any, between the words "lakh" and "lot", as in "lots of something." Hmm... Something else to look up...)

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Yes maybe in 20 years it's "uber" cool to use "lakh".

And in oneandtwenty years English will have switched back to old style counting... ;-)

Cheers Rolf
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