Why not? In the land of anything-goes, errr-kon-dishin (as opposed to air conditioning system or air conditioning unit) went mainstream long ago.

Cikcifogu…

Don’t forget “loverver”

Paul Bonnici, for various reasons which are too complicated to list, you are an idiot. But it’s not your fault. Our top professuri, Joe Friggieri in primis, have fed the lie about languages evolving like some sort of linguistic Glastonbury Festival.

Think on this: Why is it called a “dehumidifier”? You can trace the evolution of the word right back to its Latin origins. Now try tracing “humidity fire” back to anywhere.

How about “petlor”, “arjuport” or “Ingriterra”.

Gone to the bakery! Brilliant! Thanks for the laugh! We’ve really gone to de docks now.

True, it did not occur to me.

[Daphne – Yes, Paul, in the centuries when nobody except monks knew how to read and write. Language ‘evolves’ through the mashing up of loan-words in an illiterate, not literate, society.]

This is a country where krucifiss becomes kurcifiss, polvri becomes porvli, ponsettia becomes ponsjetta, delfin becomes denfil and so on ad nauseam.

What takes the biscuit in my opinion is a travel brochure I remember seeing in a shop in Rabat, Gozo some years back where Marsalforn was explained as ‘Gone to the bakery’.