"Robert Klute" > wrote in message
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> On 30 Sep 2003 21:21:13 GMT, Adrian Tupper
> > wrote:
>
> >"Peter H.M. Brooks" > wrote in news:3F795E9E.6050601
> :
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> >
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> >> Chota Hazri - Five Thirty (05h30)
> >
> >What's one o' them then?
>
> Pukka and Chota Hazri are Hindi words adopted by the English during the
> time of the Raj. Pukka means, basically, 'well cooked'. For the
> English it came to mean first class or proper. Chota Hazri is little
> breakfast or early morning tea taken before dawn. For the English, it
> means bed tea or light breakfast snack. Burra Hazri would be the later
> big breakfast.

Care is needed with the pronunciation. Burra (often, bara) has the u of
'cup' and means big. Burra with the u of 'full' means bad. You eat it, you
choose.
m.