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gusto, often with a singularly ludicrous effect. He only studies to 

 conceal his Indian origin ; yet, do what he can, he cannot get rid of 

 those troublesome inflectional terminations and auxiliary verbs, and, 

 after all his misapplied labour, the pedantic sentences, which nothing 

 can induce him to call anything but Persian, remain hopelessly and 

 unalterably Hindustani. He has probably succeeded in making it 

 unintelligible Hindustani, but still Hindustani it is and must r,emain, 

 and no native of Iran could pronounce it to be more than some very 

 provincial type of true Persian. Such a position appears to me highly 

 undignified ; while, on the other hand, if the Hindi basis were frankly 

 recognized and worked upon, the result would be a genuine national 

 inheritance. I will here give a few of the most common Hindi words 

 which are banished from the Kachahris, and place opposite to them 

 their fashionable substitutes. 



Hindi. Foreign. 



Beta or larka, Pisar or walad. 



Bap, Walid. 



Chandi, Nukra. 



Tel, Raughan. 



Ghi or ghrit, Raughan-e-zard. 



Gehufi, Gandum. 



Gaiiw, Mauza. 



Brihaspati, Juma-rat. 



Chori, Sirika. 



Byah, Izdiwaj. 



Bakri, Gospand. 



Len-den, Dad o sitad. 



Sunar, Zargar. 



Kua, Chah. 



Nidan, ...., Akhir-i-kar. 



Kachha, Kham. 



Alag, 'Alahida. 



The last word alag is of good Sanskrit descent, but I am sure nine- 



enths of the Munshis look upon it as merely a vulgar corruption of 



'aldhidd, in the same way as nagich is of nazdih. So far as the above 



list goes, and it might be indefinitely extended, all the words in the 



Hindi column appear to me, some from one reason, some from another, 



