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Updated On: 04 November, 2014 08:50 AM IST | | MiD DAY Correspondent
The city — sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
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Miss take
We Desis are famous for misspelt signboards and nameplates, especially in English. "Child beer” for “chilled” is by now legendary, and you know the language has gone the extra mile when “puncture” becomes “pemchur” an Anglicisation of the Marathi mispronunciation by roadside tyre-fixers.

It’s a prahvate class, dahling. Pic/Uday Devrukhkar
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