![]() ![]() Ranjeet Singh was most popular among viewers because of his catchphrase “A thousand apologies” apart from his neatly-trimmed black beard and moustache and his Sikh turban. One such very funny character among others in it was Ranjeet Singh, a Sikh from the Punjab region in India. So, each character was etched in viewers’ minds by their fanciful pronunciation and use of English. ![]() The program presented an English class which consisted of students from various countries, but didn’t have a good command of English speech. This program was so popular at the time that even though most television viewers in Sri Lanka were Sinhala monolingual, they watched it without fail. If you were a television viewer of Sri Lanka during the late 70s, you will definitely remember a British sitcom titled ‘Mind Your Language’.
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