American

[Dan Goncharoff]

Isn't Bharat an official, constitutional name of India, not the official,
constitutional name of India?

DanG


On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> American Indian or East Indian?
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> No, no, not the "East Indies." India.
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> Wikipedia informs me, however, that the official, Constitutional name of
> "India"  is Bharat.  Yet the Constitution  of India is written in English
> and says "India" in the very first line, according to Wikipedia.
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> So go figure, if you know what I'm saying.
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> JL
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> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > > An American historically is a "Native American"
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> > Nevertheless, some dekkids ago, I was quite surprised and even
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> > had to do with *"Indian"* languages and not with the varieties of
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