Name calling
Springwatch presenter Gillian Burke says she finds it ‘jarring’ to call animals by their English names, preferring Swahili. Some popular Swahili translations:
– Elephant: tembo/ndovu
– Giraffe: twiga
– Lion: simba
– Hyena: fisi
– Hippopotamus: hippopotamus
– I’m fed up of paying for a TV licence: Nimechoka kulipa leseni ya TV
Full Marx
A Labour politician named Karl Peter Marx Wardlow was elected as a councillor in Stockport.
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