I have no idea about “rickyism,” unless it is related to “I Love Lucy,” but ok. I’m an old fashioned military historian, and we have enough in dealing with the names of locations that have changed over the centuries, due to conquering and/or changes in translation....Peiping vs Peking, for example.
And then there is 1 ton soup that is hard to change into metric.
There are those counties who use the metric system....and there are those that have landed men on the moon and brought them back safely.
Rickyisms refer to verbal maleprops spoken by the character Ricky in the Canadian tv show Trailer Park Boys. 12 or 13 seasons and multiple specials, fan tours, conventions from iit on CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Examples
Its not rocket appliance
Supply and Command
Kids go through phrases
lets get two birds stoned
Its all water under the fridge...