molybdenum

This morning I had the joy of hearing a White South African Newscaster mispronounce the word Molybdenum as - wait for it:

Molly-bed-num


This person's name is Glenn Lewington of Classic Fm 102.7

It is bad enough that Classic Fm has two super intelligent black women commentators who mispronounce everything they can think of including "Spartial"for  Spatial.  But this is a white man who does the business section for Classic Fm.

If this is the standard of education of South Africans I am not surprised that they cannot get jobs in other English speaking countries.  My biggest peeve is that it is the public hearing these mispronunciations thinks that they are correct.  Another example is A-wry pronounce as awe-ry.

I have a personal collection of Africanisms which are far more fun than the old English Sow-theffrican Inglish of Rawbone Malongs "Ah Big Yaws" published in 1972.

I heard this on the bus, "You must go to You no vessity to git an akudamik edookashon."

Another:  The emmy kennel had a sekketerry who wekked on a compoota."

Again thank you Glenn for cheering up my day.

carrus onsulting

I wonder who does their proofreading.

Weltevreden ward at Krugersdorp hospital

Recently I went to the Netcare Krugersdorp hospital and burst out laughing when I discovered one of the wards was called:

WELTEVREDEN WARD

Weltevreden means well satisfied and those poor patients were anything but.  In the ward I was visiting were 5 beds. In bed A was an elderly man who looked like he was dead, Bed b had a body whose head was covered  by a blanket, Bed C wasn't there, Bed D was empty and appeared to be recently vacated and the man who I was visiting in Bed E had been in a car accident and was in a load of pain.

Well satisfied?  I think not!!

SA Health Department runs out of the Pill

http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx

Health Department denies severity of problem

SOUTH Africans should brace themselves for a population explosion as public clinics, particularly in Gauteng, have run out of the supply of contraceptives for sexually active women.

A senior government official, who refused to be identified, told Sowetan yesterday that the company that supplies public clinics had ran out of contraceptives.

The government supplies the public with Nordette and Triphasil contraceptive pills. “All we know is that the company is waiting for supplies from overseas and the little that they have inside the country has to go through a quality assurance test,” the official said.

Sowetan has learnt that there are 86 clinics in Ekurhuleni, and, according to the Democratic Alliance, all have no contraceptives.

It would take two months before they are delivered.

Dr Reddy, the company that supplies the contraceptives, said it was working around the clock to “close gaps ” which it hoped would be filled by the end of the month.

A manager at Dr Reddy, Nihar Patnaik, assured Sowetan that despite “slight” problems they had in July, the company would fill the “gaps ” before the end of the month.

Cape Town-based medical doctor Dr Lebogang Phahladira said problems that women who switch from contraceptive pills to the injection could face included unwanted pregnancy, bleeding, weight gain and the possibility of weak bone structure in the long term.

“Certainly, there are potential problems, especially unwanted pregnancy, ” Phahladira said.

National Department of Health spokesman Popo Maja said the department was not aware of a shortage of contraceptives in public clinics.

Gauteng, with the highest female population in the country, is hardest hit by the shortage.

Provincial health spokesman Simon Zwane denied that the shortage was severe in the province.

“There is a shortage of pills, but it is not on a large scale. Injections are available in clinics,” he said.

Of the three regions in Gauteng, Ekurhuleni clinics have no contraceptives on their shelves.

A member of the mayoral committee for health in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council, Khosi Maluleke, yesterday admitted there was a shortage, but insisted that in some clinics contraceptives were still available.

“It is not all clinics that do not have contraceptives, and when there is shortage of any medicine from a clinic, they have a right to go and get what they do not have from another clinic,” she said.

Maluleke denied that all forms of contraceptives were not available in clinics. “We only have a shortage of pills, and we advise people who visit clinics to consider an injection.”

DA caucus leader in Ekurhuleni Shelley Loe yesterday told a council meeting that none of the clinics in the region has contraceptive pills and injections.

During the council sitting, Loe challenged mayor Mondli Gungubele to give her “straight answers on issues and not resort to your usual racist slurs and jokes to detract from the real problems facing very real women ”.

In his reply, Gungubele steered clear of the contraceptives topic.

Loe later told Sowetan that the shortage was as a result of nonpayment of service providers by the government.

ONLY IN AFRICA

A protestor at the Earthlife Africa protest against a planned coal mine in Limpopo.  I would agree to their claims if they could actually organize a protest without rent-a-crowd and did their posters properly.

http://www.fin24.com/Companies/Mining/Activists-protest-Anglos-dirty-energy-20130806

DEWEY SYSTEM

Recently I was in the local library where all the books are supposedly arranged by the Dewey System.

The funny thing is that the Dewey System starts at 001 - fantastic! This section of the Dewey System is for Knowledge which includes things of esoteric nature. So when computers came alon there was no space for the subject so the powers plonked it in the front at 000.

All well and good, but the fun starts when you put a book called "The mysteries of the Universe" next to "Networking made simple"

Today I see a book named "Hunting by Selous scout" next to "Art of criticism."

witch

This is exactly the way  I feel about folding washing!!!!