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Light Relief
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South African words like trek, impi, braai, and many more, are in the Oxford Dictionary, but that doesn’t mean everyone in Britain knows them. Among a group of us young South Africans in England in 1961, a girl named “Debbie” amused us. When talking to the locals she spoke just as she would at home. In a post office, instead of asking for ‘a threepenny stamp’ she said ‘a tickey stamp’, and was told ‘Madam, all our stamps are sticky’. And needing a head scarf, in a Lancashire village she asked someone where she could buy ‘a doek’. ‘Just down the street, luv – Jones & Son, Butchers and Poulterers.’ I’m not sure if “Debbie” ever learnt to choose her words more carefully.
By John Deane
Two runners up will also receive R200 each courtesy of Senior Living Magazine.
Working with the elderly can be a laugh a minute sometimes. The other day I was standing on the main verandah greeting some of the residents who were making their way to the dining room for lunch, when I noticed one of the elderly ladies suddenly covering her nose and mouth with her hand. “Ooh, I see you have forgotten your mask,” I giggled as she approached me. She came close to my ear and quietly whispered back. “Never mind my mask, I forgot to put my teeth in.”
With that she turned around and hurried back to her home to retrieve both her mask and her ‘teeth’.
Lollie
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