Go-Starn

To "go-starn" in the Malaysian lingo (didn't want to say, Malaysian English as it translates across all the Malaysian languages) means to go backwards or reverse. It is not unusual to hear the instruction directed by back-seat drivers to their unfortunate drivers to "go-starn, go-starn lah!"
Which would translate as "Kindly reverse up old chap" in the more genteel word of middle England (if you had Biggles and Bertie Wooster as neighbours)

Do you know where the term comes from?





It derives from the nautical term of "go astern". the Stern being the back of a ship; therefore meaning to go to the back, or reverse. Translated by Malaysians... "Go-starn lah!"