"mUs1Ka" > wrote in message
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> "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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> > >
> > >>
> > >> 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.
>
What a useful distinction to bear in mind if you have an unpleasant
breakfast!


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'They.. sucked the Tobacco smoak in greedily, swallow it down with the
Water. For which reason..generally at..the first Pipe in the Morning, they
fall down drunk and insensible.' - 1698 A. Brand 'Embark Muscovy to China'