USAGE: CHAT/USAGE: RE: [CONLANG] The [+foreign] attribute

John Cowan:
> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> > What an incontinent superfluity of trochees! I tersely confine myself to
> > a single one -- lavchree (or ['kAzi] or [bQg]).
>
> I suppose ['kAzi] is some hypocoristic Australianism?
No, it's a bit of Polari that made it into mainstream slang --
_carsey_ < Italian _casa_. (It is often spelt <kazi> or <khazi>,
which probably reflects an unconscious erroneous but not foolish
surmise that it belongs among the large amount of BrE slang of
Indian/Hindi origin.) All the Australians I know say "dunny".

--And.