Upgradation & Updation!!!
I asked my Team head from UK to review a document with title ‘Upgradation of System’ He wrote me back the word ‘Upgradation’ itself is wrong and denied to review. I said it’s the title from a client in South Asian Country, we cannot change it. This was not the first time he was worried about these words, ‘Upgradation’& ‘Updation.’ I wanted to know what was wrong as I was using these words from childhood. I came across a page: https://english.stackexchange.com where someone’s justification was humorous. He wrote: Quote It's an informal word created by informal English users who collectively influence large group of users/people. Most of these words originated from India (eg. upgradation, updation). Basically, it is used by English users (Indians) confidently thus influencing the other non-familiar English user that it is a formal word. With India's population these words had become common through the years. Nevertheless, these words are not formally acceptable to native Eng