Originally Posted By: May
[quote=endymion6]KINEMA

...I didn't know about faire dinkum, but stumbled on this today. Dialect, interesting.
http://languagehat.com/the-story-of-dinkum/


As I recall, Robert Heinlein used "fair dinkum" regularly in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, as part of the polyglot-derived Loonie dialect. (Now I'm going to have to dig it out and read it again...)