I recently ran across a very odd word (odd, that is, to those who don’t
work in the relevant industries); I quote the OED entry (revised 2016):
gobo noun² ...
September 13, 2005
Sri Lankan English
The September 2005 issue of the OED Newsletter contains an article by Richard Boyle, one of the OED's consultants, which looks at the history of Sri Lankan English. A useful overview of the subject from the author of Knox's Words, a study of words of Sri Lankan origin recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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