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I've heard the word used by people from [[AU]], [[CA]], [[NZ]], the [[US]], [[ZA]], and  [[ZW]]. I think the term British used this way is too specific, but I agree this is a neo-briticism in essence. I will change it to outside the US.
[[User:Thecurran|Thecurran]] 02:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

: Why?  Labeling it as "Colloquial British" conveys that it is, as you say, "neo-briticism" in essence much better than implying it isn't used outside the US.  It obviously ''is'' used in the US (rarely) just as it is in those other places.  Saying it isn't characteristic of the UK is misleading; saying that it is something common anywhere ''but'' the US is downright wrong.  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 04:02, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

That's why I prefer the use of the term Commonwealth English. We don't go around marking every English word used half a millenium ago as British for good reason. Where it's used defines what it is, where it was made defines what it was. IMHO, the term British does not properly convey where it is used and so is inappropriate. What do you think?[[User:Thecurran|Thecurran]] 01:56, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

== [[Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup|RFC]] discussion: April–November 2013 ==

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The current etymology:
:Most likely influenced by the Danish word ''tak'', the Norwegian word "takk", the Swedish word ''tack'', and the Icelandic word ''takk'', meaning ''thanks'', via a process of final consonant deletion [[w:Phonological_history_of_English_consonants#Final-consonant_deletion|see Wikipedia]].
It doesn't say ''what'' was influenced, or where it came from. It's unlikely that all four languages did the influencing- some seem to have been added by "my-language-too" partisans. And, to top it off, the Wikipedia section linked to is a discussion of a phenomenon in [[AAVE]] that has nothing to do with with this term. [[User:Chuck Entz|Chuck Entz]] ([[User talk:Chuck Entz|talk]]) 21:18, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

* I've heard this word used in contexts that aren't quite "thanks", and I could swear I'd run across an explanation that this came from Irish {{m|ga|tá||it is}}.  Dunno if that's a potentially useful avenue of investigation, but there you go.  -- [[User:Eirikr|Eiríkr&nbsp;Útlendi]]&nbsp;│&nbsp;<small style="position: relative; top: -3px;">''[[User talk:Eirikr|Tala&nbsp;við&nbsp;mig]]''</small> 01:27, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

I decided there wasn't enough reliable content in among all the flimsy guesswork, and no help forthcoming- so I just deleted the whole etymology section. [[User:Chuck Entz|Chuck Entz]] ([[User talk:Chuck Entz|talk]]) 18:07, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
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73 lines long table of contents to scroll through, before seeing any first definition or part of the article, is amazing. from a usability perspective, just a thought. -[[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] 00:45, 10 November 2021 (UTC)