Wednesday, August 19, 2009

One thing that puzzles me. . .

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pmo-typo-draws-chuckles-cringes/article1255998/

It is kind of funny. The thing that amazes me, though, is that the Inuit have a word for people with unwiped bums. That kind of implies that this unwiped bum thing happens quite often. I guess in a land with no trees, it's hard to find some good two-ply.

2 comments:

Barbara Bruederlin said...

As Canadians we should be all too aware of the power of that extra U. What a great story!

John Mutford said...

They have a lot of such words. Teaching grade 3 there, those were amongst the first words to enter my budding Inuktitut vocab. Anaq= poop, anaqvik= place to poop (i.e., bathroom), iquq= hanging poop, niilik= fart, kakiik= snot...