When I was in my undergrad college back in my city in India, I attended a regional design conference in another part of southern India.
At the introductory ceremony, the guest speaker (who was clearly NOT from my city) took a quick poll to ask us how many were “Madrasis” (people from the city of Madras/Chennai), and a number of hands went up. His face broke into a cheeky grin and he said “I have a joke for you”.
Apparently, other “southies” make fun of us Madrasis for our high English usage in daily vocabulary. So he said that he visited his little nephew, about 4-5 yrs of age at the time, and they had lived in Madras for years.
So he sat next to the child and asked him, all the time intending to tease him: “Snake-irukkara hole-kuLLa hand-a poTTaa, snake bite-um-aa bite-aadhaa? To which the kid promptly and with all the innocence of his age replied, “Bite-um!!”
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