An instruction: ‘calm down’ or ‘relax’ or ‘take it easy’. I’m a teacher so I tend to use this a lot – it can also be shortened into slang: spoko, which is generally good for an easy laugh in the classroom, much like k’vo? I’m sure that the amusement here, however, comes from my pronunciation which I know isn’t quite right. This is due to my system of learning vocabulary which is almost entirely based on word association. As an example, for this word, I imagine a cockney Captain Kirk on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise shouting: ‘Spock! Oi! No!’
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