Tracy

>... She stated that it is the correct way to speak when she uses the progressive tense to say 'he knows her" as in "she is knowing him." According to her, only the westernized and upper-middle class Indians speak BBC English.

Interesting you should say that. The BBC have long moved away from posh accents and anything goes now, from Cockneys to Scousers. What's sad is that more and more of the young presenters (and some who are old enough to know better) insist on the new fad of using the "present continuous" form of the verb "to love", a la bloody Macdonald's advert "ba-da-ba-da-da - I'm lovin' it.", and this is entering very fast into normal speech. Now this is one verb that should never have a continuous tense - you either love something or you don't.

I'm hatin' it! :-)

Terry