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by merlyn (47) <merlyn@stonehenge.com> on 2007.06.21 16:01 (#55709) Homepage Journal
my perlmonks posting on question v doubt [perlmonks.org].
Seems to most commonly be mistaken by asian-language speakers... perhaps the concepts overlap more completely in asian languages.
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  by slanning (5049)
  
  From the last comment in that thread, it seems that this meaning of "doubt" is commonly used in Indian English. I don't see any reason, then, why the usage is "incorrect" any more than, say, all the differences in meanings of the words between British and American English [wikipedia.org].

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