A new language was thus introduced.
This is the English as it is now spoken on television and radio.
The recently published New Suth Effrican Deekshunry defines these new weds. Here are some extracts and examples of their usage in the official New Suth Effrican Lungwich:
Bad | you sleep on it in the badroom |
Beds | mossies, doves, sea-gulls etc |
Beg | container, as in shopping beg, hend-beg, tog-beg |
Ben | to set alight |
Chealdren | our future is in their hands |
Chetz | where worshippers go on Sundays |
Cuds | you can play poker or rummy with them |
Cut | a small donkey-drawn vehicle |
Debben | city in KwaZulu Natal |
Deekshunry | where you find weds |
Detty | opposite of clean |
Driva | holds the steering wheel of a teksi |
Duck | very duck at night when the lights are all off |
Ebben | you get ebben erriors and rural erriors |
Effrican | from the continent of Africa Erriors - districts, e.g. ebben erriors |
Ewways | eg. SAA, Comair, Lufthansa etc |
Fems | companies, e.g., Anglo-American |
Fest | the one before second and third |
Fok | used with nifes |
Fok ass | focus |
Fum | you can fum with ship or kettle |
Fumma | he owns the fum |
Guddin | where you grow kebbijees |
Geave | you MUST geave, I WILL take |
Get | a hinged device in a fence |
Hair | as opposed to heem |
Heppi | state of elatement, e.g. I'm so heppi - I just voted |
Hiss | masculine form of hairs |
Hubba | where sheeps dock |
Jems | little bugs that give you the flu |
Kah | what you drive around in |
Kebbijees | vegetable |
Keptown | some think parliament doesn't belong there |
Kettegry | in a system of classification |
Kipper | one who kips, as in goal kipper |
Kleenix | where nesses wek |
Kot | where the judges sit |
Len | to acquire knowledge |
Leeda | as in Arwa Leeda, Mbeki the president |
Lungwich | weds what are spokkin |
Nesses | they wek in kleenix and hospitals |
Pee pull | powa to da pee pull |
Peppa | one way to get the news |
Pesson | one of pee pull |
Pees | symbolised by white dove |
Pees-Tox | between IRA and Tony Blair |
Reeva | e.g. Limpopo, Vaal, Orange |
Regime | anything to describe pre-1994 |
Ree kwest | replaced by dee mands |
Sheep | big boat |
Shex | houses in squatter camps |
Ship | provider of wool |
Shuck-attak | if the shuck-net is brokkin |
Shuck-nets | at Debben, for safety of sweemas |
Spitch | what politicians make at a relly |
Sweemas | compete in a sweeming pul |
Teksi | kah for hire - sometimes parrot teksi |
Thest | ice cold Coke will relieve it on a hot day |
Tipic ally | characteristically |
Tox | negotiations |
Ummy | military force |
Wee men | ladies |
We pon | a gun |
Wean-dow | with glus for throwing bricks through |
Weaner | the one with the most votes |
Weds | what the dictionary is made up of |
Wekkas | do the wek |
Weld | the whole eth |
Wems | small crawly creatures |