“OLDE ENGLISH” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ It seems as though “olde English” has gone “phishing” This new/olde English word was last heard when some.Sinhalese person was asked where their partner had gone. The answer would generally be ” he has gone phishing” Our good Sinhala people are all minus the letter “f” in their alphabet and, as such, the letters “ph” is substituted . So, if you asked this person ” what has he gone phishing for? ,” the lady would probably say, “I don’t know men, I asked him and meka tharaha wuna (he got angry)) & he told me he was going phishing for maha pukka loola or something”!! I think that this is a rare big phish, oops, fish. This writer is getting quite perplexed by all this. I heard this “new word” this morning on the A.B.C.News on television, soon after we were ...