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As often heard in India! That and many other weird and wonderful phrases...

• CharlesW 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English#Vocabulary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English#Vocabulary
  • foogazi 3y ago
    I can see revert to be confusing in a tech environment
• owenmarshall 3y ago
  I was once late for a meeting because my coworker needed to prepone it and I just assumed I’d misheard.
  • philwelch 3y ago
    "Prepone" is a brilliant word that the rest of us need to adopt.
    • thanksgiving 3y ago
      This one I absolutely agree with. I love preponed meetings because I can easily skip it.
  • hotpotamus 3y ago
    It reminds me a bit of The Assassin's Guild in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. They didn't murder or assassinate anyone; they "inhumed" them - as in the opposite of exhume them.
• blamazon 3y ago
  Horn OK please! (Note: considered outdated, but I still love the phrase) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_OK_Please https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_OK_Please
  • SanjayMehta 3y ago
    The origins of this phrase goes back to a middle signal light called the “OK light” on trucks. When you wanted to overtake a truck, you were supposed to tap your horn, and the truck driver would flash this middle light to tell you it was safe to overtake. That signal light disappeared decades ago, but that phrase remains. It was originally: “Horn Please” above, and “Ok” written under that signal light.