to unearth a secret

As part of the restoration of the house, they took up the carpeting and left the hardwood floors exposed.

No train operating company bosses were prepared to criticise the confusion publicly. But off-record, some are exasperated by a perceived lack of leadership.

In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than standard English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as errors by prescriptivist language scholars.