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Deepavali or Diwali? Going beyond vernacular
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Some organisations have been using the non-vernacular terms "Diwali" (instead of Deepavali) and "Eid Mubarak" in greetings recently.
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Deepavali or Diwali? Selamat Hari Raya or Eid Mubarak?
The Ministry of Communications and Information's "longstanding advice" to government agencies is to use local vernacular terms like Deepavali and Hari Raya in their public communications, it said in response to queries about the use of non-vernacular terms by public and private organisations.
