Tag: English

Misandry …

That debate drew attention to the need to update the definition, said Ms Butler.

“I always think of myself as the person with the mop and the broom and the bucket who’s cleaning up the language after the party’s over,” she told ABC News.

“And in this case it was a fairly big party, and what was left on the floor was misogyny.”

The Macquarie Dictionary will redefine misogyny for the benefit of our viral prime minister.

The Mcgee Dictionary will, henceforth, define misandry as the alteration of the meaning of words, by women, to denigrate men.

Irony …

Laura Fernandez proudly sets the scene in the Jazz Messenger …

I came to Canada as a little girl at seven years of age. I was excited to be in a new country but I did not speak a word of English. Life was a big adjustment in those first few years. I was thrown into the school system immediately upon my arrival in Calgary. There I found that although I was really advanced in my learning (from my Spanish education), I was severely hampered by the fact that I did not speak English.

I took English classes with my school principal who tutored my sister and I after school every day, (I owe her big time, her name was Mrs.Woodlock and she helped my sister and I learn very quickly).

She could, no doubt, have helped I learn English, too …