Topic: Is it possible to over cook your base ?

[Peripatetic Phil]

Bromley North or Bromley South BR? I believe a night bus makes it way back into London from those parts...

Since I  can drive up to four others from one end of Bromley to the other at zero inconvenience, it doesn't really matter which part it is in !

** Phil.

[fried]

Come on! Get it organised, let's see a review.

[Peripatetic Phil]

At the moment only two have expressed an interest; I would suggest we aim for four if possible.
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[artistpaul]

Me too, i.e. I hate the word 'garabi'

It's strange that if you search for garabi on any well-known search engines, nothing comes up relating to India/curries/gravy etc. So I'm with George - I hate it for the pretentious attempt to look clever that it is. I would ban the word from this forum and make a poll if I was allowed

Hi guys

The word garabi used by them, they are actually trying to say 'gravy' but Indians etc have a difficulty pronouncing the letter V as V does not exist in their language, so they pronounce it lazily as a B

hence garabi!

[Peripatetic Phil]

The word garabi used by them, they are actually trying to say 'gravy' but Indians etc have a difficulty pronouncing the letter V as V does not exist in their language, so they pronounce it lazily as a B

hence garabi!

That's a bit over-simplified, and "they/them" are Bengali speakers rather than the whole of the sub-continent, but basically Artist Paul is correct -- See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_phonology#Consonant_clusters for a good explanation of this phenomenon.

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[Les]

My old boss was from Deli, And he pronounced his "V" as a "W" as in Winegar instead of Vinegar. ;D

[Stu-pot]

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D  ;D.   Love it....    ;D

[Garp]

That begs the question why members on here, who, assumedly, have the letter 'v' in their vocabulary, refer to it as garabi, rather than the intended word, gravy?

[Onions]

So would you if your name was Joseph 

[curryhell]

Great to have a more in depth explanation but comments could be misunderstood as being a little condescending, intentional or not  :