Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] pukka (was NY Photo Expo: A talk with Leica
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 03:38:15 -0800

Christer Almqvist wrote:
> 
> >BTW, forgive my ignorance, but what is a pukka Leica?
> >
> >Francesco Sanfilippo,
> 
> pukka is Hindi and means cooked, ripe, solid, and also genuine, authentic,
> first-class or complete. Pukka was the second word I had to look up today
> when reading the mail from the LUG. Corrobate was the other. I wish the
> contributors would all use basic English only, or otherwise provide
> explanations or alternatively give translations into Swedish.

Corrobate no in my dictionaries. Is that Hindi as well? :)
Mark Rabiner