At a popular tourist hub in Galle, Sri Lanka, a room rate menu card at the reception desk of my hotel is misspelled 'Room rats'. Funny enough they also served tomato milkshake. There were just so many similar spelling mistakes that someone has actually written a book about it.

Nepal have many locally brewed spirits. While traveling on a bus to Chitwan National Park, I saw countless billboards with advertisement like 'Gill Marry whiskey' which is a whiskey brand called Gill Mary. Russian vodka has been labeled 'Ruslan' vodka simply derived from the way the Nepalis pronounced it.

As a regular visitor to Kathmandu, I have picked up a few Nepali words like 'Chaina' which simply means 'no'. This word is commonly used by tourist who wish to put off touting vendors. A Nepali who is trying to sell his musical instrument to a tourist would normally get a response like 'Chaina' and the vendor would respond back 'no sir, it is not made in China, it is made in Nepal.