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Funds vs Funda - What's the difference?

funds | funda |

As nouns the difference between funds and funda

is that funds is plural of lang=en while funda is basics or fundamentals, considered as a unit.

As a verb funds

is third-person singular of fund.

funds

English

Noun

(head)
  • Financial resources
    • I don't know if I have the funds for this.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fund)
    • ----

    funda

    English

    Noun

  • basics or fundamentals, considered as a unit
    • Get your funda correct before you submit the paper.
  • * 1992 [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.invest/msg/0fe47958fa1d469a]
    • In my opinion, the funda is as follows:
  • concept
    • what is the funda behind relativity?
  • understanding
  • * 1993 , [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/msg/b39dd8393c559598]
    • You did not have the funda to realize that the statistics is an ass.
  • * 1993 , [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/msg/4596874842587e78]
    • But then, your funda is weak.

    Usage notes

    Whilst fundaes and fundae both occur as the plural of funda , fundas is far more widespread. The pluralization to fundae is by analogy to formula/formulae. The pluralization to fundas is by the simple addition of -s. The word is frequently used in to denote the interesting fact or concept behind a question. Over the past few years, funda / fundae has morphed into an irreverent term, implying an abstract and impractical statement used to coverup one's ignorance of the topic at hand. This form of usage is particularly prevalent in Indian information technology sector. Ex: My manager is giving "funda" [instead of talking about the actual issue]

    See also

    * fundu

    References

    * nefunda, funda of the Day, Love funda , Joke Funda etc * Usenet posting by Sivakumar Ravada, prescribing fundae as the plural * Mostly Thoughtless, accessed on 2005-05-09, prescribing fundaes as the plural * IITM lingo, accessed on 2005-05-09, prescribing fundaes as the plural * The Fundoo Funda, some comments about the words funda and fundoo. ----