Dug and dog do sound the same in Scotland (ie “I took my dug for a walk” not “I dog the garden”)

…and petlor

Bilfors trid tikkultiva hafna ucuh. Meta tkun il-habs tikkultiva image ta’ hard-as-nails bastard, imbaghad fil-kwiet tac-cella tieghek tpingi l-fjuri u tikteb il-poeziji u thares imxennaq lejn dik ir-roqgha sema fit-tieqa. Dak l-uniku mod kif tista’ tkampa f’daz-zikk ta’ pajjiz. Tghix imdejjaq imma ghallinqas tghix.

I’ve heard the cleaner call it a “Mobajz”

Bear in mind that in some Maltese areas, ‘bewl’ is pronounced ‘bowl’ …

They do kick up a fuss but it does not get them anywhere. Unfortunately teachers are considered to be on the bottom rung of the ladder of education. As ridiculous as it sounds, teachers actually have very little say in what they are teaching.

Since you mentioned maths teachers, there are some very strange things going on in the maths curriculum too.

excuse me.. it’s ‘lovelver’

Delfin

I heard that email could be refered to as ‘ittra e’ in Maltese. ‘Kuxin’ doesn’t exist – the word is ‘mhadda’. ‘Tajer’ would be ‘rota’.

The funny thing is that the plural of ‘wajer’ is ‘wajers’. Since when do we use the addition of an ‘s’ for Maltese plurals? So first we insist on writing ‘wire’ as ‘wajer’ in Maltese then we use English grammar rules to conjugate the plural. Simply unbelievable!

I don’t agree with spelling English words in a Maltese way. It doesn’t make sense at all and I think that this brings with it too many complications.

When I’m writing in Maltese, my rule of thumb is to write all English words in English but within inverted commas. The inverted commas show that those particular words are spelled using different grammar than the rest of the text. It has to be accepted that English makes up a substantial chunk of commonly used Maltese.