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"Thik hai" was absorbed into the stales' family dialect years ago. We pronounce it "tee - khi" which is nothing like "tick-ett-ee". And whence the "boo"?
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I asked my Pakistani neighbour and friend, Omar, who thinks "Tickety" could have come from "Theek hai ji" ji being a suffix for respect. He did not know where boo comes from.
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