Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Updation "with a red underline indicating spell error"

Hey folks, I was writing an e mail to a friend and i wrote the word "UPDATION" and Google's spell checker put a red underline.
well I wasn't revolted by that since 80% of my spellings are incorrect (shame on you mister admitting this in the public :P) and I did a quick Google search to check what's the fuss.

What i found in the search results was interesting and i quote most of it here...

Updation is not a real word it is incorrect. Since update is a modern word, it follows the modern English trend of Zero-Derivation   


furthermore on doing google research on the word i found what interest me most:

This word is mainly used in India instead of updating and that too mostly  by Indian IT engineers.
The word most probably is originated from technical IT jargon in India. It comes from SQL (Structured Query Language) which is a  language widely used in business database systems. It has three main command words: INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE. insertion and deletion are commonly used nouns that describe the actions performed by the INSERT and DELETE commands so it would be natural for a non-native speaker to extend this group to include UPDATE , and business English users are very fond of words with Latin-sounding endings the word updation comes naturally and seems granted.


PS: I might be doing some updation to this post if found something interesting. God i like this word already updation, wow! be it that way...

1 comment :

  1. Upsert is widely used rather than updation.....

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