Wenzu the Magnificent – a historic bull ox
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September 3, 2008 at 9:00pm
Because Toni ‘Otello’ d-deputat mexxej thinks that I called him an ox, I didn’t want his little friend Wenzu to feel left out – so I found this fabulous site.
http://www.otsf.org/Wenzu.htm
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Wenzu should be just as miffed as Toni to be called an ox. :) If you look closely you’ll see he’s a bull (in spite of the website’s name).
There seems to be some confusion in Malta about the term ‘ox’, especially now that it has become part of the political vocabulary.
[Daphne – My sister and I explained it on some other thread, to a proud-to-be Labour person who objected to the use of the word ‘ox’: an ox is a fully-grown bullock and a bullock is a bull with no bollocks.]
Hilarious, Daph!
The link you provided above didn’t work on my computer, though (I had to re-type it), so I’m posting a link to it here for the benefit of whoever had the same problem as I did:
http://www.otsf.org/Wenzu.htm
[Daphne – Thanks. My moderator has decamped to Denmark, so I am having to work things out using a highly inefficient system of trial and error.]
Now isn’t that site interesting? I thought that, strictly speaking,there is no such thing as a female ox since an ox is just a steer or castrated bull (genus “bos”). It seems that a castrated bull or steer is then called an ox when it is taught to work. I’m not sure if the ox (in the English sense) is called an ox (in the Maltese sense) by reason of the castration.
I suppose one should call the female a cow. In Maltese an ox is called “gendus” and his female is the “baqra’. A bull is “barri” and, maybe few know this, some farmers call the female of the “barri” a “barrija”. I’m not sure whether there is really any difference between a baqra and a barrija. Anybody knows?
[Daphne – Oh my god, what have I started?]
LOL!!!! Great find Daphne! Let’s see what the real Wenzu will write about this!
I don’t understand – the website says Wenzu the Magnificent, Prehistoric Bull Ox. He’s both a bull and an ox, but does he have bollocks?
(Daphne – I have not looked closely enough. There is a picture, I believe.)
did all of you finished prozac?
(Daphne – There are some very good TEFL schools in Malta, Adrian.)