<story><title>Why are there so many Canadians in India?</title><url>https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/data-science-is-interesting-why-are-there-so-many-canadians-in-india/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qart</author><text>I use en-CA because it makes the most sense for me.&lt;p&gt;- I want spellcheckers to default to American (analyze vs analyse, etc.) because that&amp;#x27;s the default in computer science. This, despite en-IN using British conventions.&lt;p&gt;- Metric units&lt;p&gt;- A4, etc. paper sizes are the default in India&lt;p&gt;- Acceptable date format (anything but MM&amp;#x2F;DD&amp;#x2F;YY will do)&lt;p&gt;- I definitely don&amp;#x27;t want my file explorer showing sizes in lakhs and crores (the commas in Indian numbers) so en-IN is out.&lt;p&gt;I speak Kannada, but I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone who can speak English here will confuse Canada for Kannada, whether they are Kannadigas or not.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why are there so many Canadians in India?</title><url>https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/data-science-is-interesting-why-are-there-so-many-canadians-in-india/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scottrogowski</author><text>This is almost certainly wrong but is worth a mention given that the author can&amp;#x27;t figure it out. In Southern India, there is a language known as Kannada. It has 43 million speakers, which, fun trivia, is more than the population of Canada (38 million). While &amp;quot;Kannada&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Canada&amp;quot; are pronounced differently, I wonder whether there could be some clicks from Kannada speakers who think they are selecting the local English dialect. The English &amp;#x27;k&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;c&amp;#x27; sounds are so close together that perhaps Kannada speakers with weak English are trying to sound it out? Would be curious to hear someone from India chime in.</text></comment>