[priya]

By Paul Majendie

London- Going doolally? Getting too filmi? Being a bit of a bevakoof?

Welcome to the wonderful world of Hinglish, a rich linguistic curry that stirs together English with Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi.

And now novelist and teacher Baljinder Mahal has provided readers with a guide to this lively hybrid language - a new dictionary entitled The Queen's Hinglish: How To Speak Pukka.

For British Asian families, it is the perfect way to enliven English. On the Indian sub-continent it is a fast-developing lingua franca.

"I had so much fun compiling it," Mahal said of the dictionary that stretches from words dating back to the British Raj right up to today's hip advertising slogans.

Going doolally?

[Judi]

Lovely, priya - thanks for that

[iwanttogoback]

prepone, now there's a word i could use!

thanks priya.