Trust you to think of and find something like that,
Nick-o. Good on yer, as they say. Bet yer right, too.

No, I don't think he is. I found a similar reference (now lost again and I can't remember the search term that produced it), but the writer felt that it was an unlikely connection. A couple of other things he wrote seemed pretty authoritative to me in relation to Strine.

From memory, the writer believed that it wasn't a word that English-speaking Australians would have picked up from an Aboriginal language. Typically these are words for which there is no existing English equivalent or which are more apt.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...