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Off the album Revolver by The Beatles, the song Love You To is similar to a khayal in Kafi thāt/mode.

'Within You Without You' by The Beatles is a Hindustani song in Khamaj thāt/mode and features George Harrison on the sitar.

To make a complete Horlicks of something is a British euphemism for messing something up.

W.C. Fields wrote the screenplay for the movie, "The Bank Dick" under the pseudonym, Mahatma Kane Jeeves ("My hat, my cane, Jeeves!").

The word stepney is still used to refer to a spare tyre only in our part of the world. Stepneys are named after a street of the same name in Llanelli, Wales where they were manufactured in the early 1900s.

In the West, Masala Chai is often referred to using the tautological Chai Tea or Chai Tea Latte or simply Chai Latte.

The word clue is an alteration of clew which ultimately comes from Sanskrit's glauḥ meaning lump.

A sari's pallu is named after the Pallava kingdom in South India which made it fashionable.