"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Franz Heymann wrote:


The fairy cheated me. I only won threepence per tooth.

Was it called a tickie where you were?

Yes. I still have one or two.
The English spelling is "tickey" and in Afrikaans it is "tiekie". I
am not certain as to which came first. In Afrikaans lessons at
school, it used to be drummed into us that committing an Anglicism is
equivalent to breaking the eleventh commandment. We had to memorise
lists of such Anglicisms and "tiekie" was not on the list, so I
presume that it preceded the English version.

Franz