Word: kaif
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...advanced training in footwear molds designing") but consistently mention the aspirant's light skin. You see it in pharmacies selling Fair & Lovely lightening soaps and creams and--new this season--Fair and Handsome, for men. And you see it in commercials, in which India's top two models, Katrina Kaif and Yana Gupta, are part English and part Czech, respectively. Lightness is big business. Fair and Handsome's maker, Mohan Goenka of Calcutta-based Emami, says the fairness-cosmetics market has grown two-thirds in the past five years, to an annual $250 million. India's 60,000 beauty salons...
Suit, coop, raddiator, worshing, kewpon, kaif, pitcher, umberella, athaletic, fillum...
...elect a Proper Pronunciation Commission in this country, to persuade U. S. radiannouncers not to call a "suite" (of rooms or furniture) a "suit," a "coupe" (small closed car) a "coop," a "radiator" a "raddiator,"or radio"raddio" not to say "worshing" (a Pittsburghism) for "washing," "kewpon" for "coupon" "kaif" for "cafe," "pitcher" for "picture," "umbrella," "athaletic," 'fillum" and "I-ow'a" for their comparatively manageable originals...
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