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To: Woodman

Fair dinkum — Reliable; genuine; honest; true comes from British dialect. It is recorded from Lincolnshire, England in 1881, and is the equivalent of West Yorkshire fair doos fair dealing. The adjective is first recorded in Australia from the 1890s


29 posted on 07/19/2019 5:10:03 AM PDT by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: csvset

I now what it means. I lived down under at one time;)


65 posted on 07/19/2019 7:47:19 AM PDT by Woodman
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