"Mumbai lingo is a bit different. There’s a lot of Hindi slang and it’s mostly abusive, but used a lot in the modeling circuit. [A fairly common term here] is ‘bombay docks’, used when a girl has bad body odour." (Mumbai model Sahil Shroff quoted in The slang bang! by Reshma Arya, DNA, December 4, 2006)
Another intriguing Facebook post by Nelson Goering (I’ve added itals where
appropriate): Einar Haugen has this to say about the fate of ð/d in later
Scandi...
