Mudcat Café message #2891098

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Thread #128947 Message #2891098
Posted By: Bob Bolton
20-Apr-10 - 11:58 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: (ish) the language of the streets
Subject: RE: Folklore: (ish) the language of the streets

G'day Gibb Sahib and Richard Bridge,

I was just checking derivation of 'dekko' ... as used in Australia: "take a dekko ..." - "Have a good look at ...".

I see that dekho is the imperative of the Hindi dehkna ... so the original actually means the whole of our phrase(s)!

Regard(les)s,

Bob