204: savvy Jun 30, 2015

Savvy was onomatopoetic, derives from the word 'sabi' which is originally from a few pidgin English and creole languages, and this was one of the few words to derive from pidgin English. The word 'sabi' was an imitation of the Spanish phrase 'sabe usted' which means ‘you know’ or 'they know'.
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