Indian English Entry 863 / 1011 60-second read

Prepone vs. Bring forward

Indian English coinage — "move earlier."

The comparisoni

✗ Wrong

Can we prepone the meeting?

✓ Correct

Can we bring the meeting forward?

The ruleii

PREPONE: accepted in IndE, unusual elsewhere.

PREPONE (pre + postpone) means to move earlier. Now in Oxford Dictionary, noted as Indian English.

Memory aidiii

Remember it like this

Indian English: prepone = move earlier.

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