>>>When were you involved in Sterling? Is the C$ an innovation or summat?
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>>Involved? There was a huge court case, he was accused of having sterled unknown amounts... but he had a good lawyer and got on a parole.
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>Wouldn't that be "sterlen"? And it sounds like "geordie" speech, as in from Newcastle, up north.
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>Actually a place where a lot of Norse words entered their dialect, and Gypsy
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>eg a crackling fire is a "barry yag", a mad dog is a "raj joogle"

Our Rroma people (and I should know, having them as neighbors on three sides back home) really speak their own language, but as it goes with many minority languages, words spill over in all directions, so you find many familiar words there. And then you learn that some of these words actually originated there :). For example, one of the expressions for an ordinary avlijaner (avlija - tur. yard), i.e. a mongrel dog, is "dodž" - domaci obican džukac, domestic ordinary jukats, where the last word is derived from džukela, a stray dog, which is straightly borrowed from Rroma jukel - dog. Now if that's not a close cousin to joogle, I'm their uncle.