I think one shoud write drapp because the Italian original word is written drappo and the pronounciation of the a in Maltese and italian is not a long a. Similarly for grokk which is written as it is because of the short vowel and the consequent harsher pronounciation of the letter k. (the original word is grog).

On the other hand bank comes from Italian banco and we say as plural bankijiet or banek. Besides as far I know no word is letter with three consonants next to each other in Maltese,

Quite a difference to her husband. He was caught without them.

It is nice to note that you have, at last, started to agree with me (and it only took a couple of months). That shows signs of maturity.

I would like to leave you with something MarkTwain wrote in his book Tom Sawyer:

“When I was 14 years old I thought my father was a silly man. When I got to be 18, I was surprised how much he had learned in just 4 years.”

Absolutely. Oh and have you seen this?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110629/world/france-air-drops-weapons-to-libya-rebels.373046

Great minds, what.

[Daphne – Not to mention why the company employed her in the first place, but best not get into that.]

[Daphne – James Tyrrell, you really need to see a psychiatrist. I mean it. Your fixation with me is absolutely not normal, and you show strong signs of violent contempt for women in general. Now I shall go back to deleting your comments like I have done the previous ones. Your style is so recognisable that it gives you away. It was immediately obvious to me, for example, that you were the Anglu whatever who posted a comment on timesofmalta.com, during the Libyan protests outside the embassy, saying that what they needed was a size 12 in the brisket. A far right misogynist racist – what a surprise that all three things should go together. But not to people who remember that your foray into Maltese politics began with letters written from Northern Ireland, telling us Maltese to vote No because the European Union is hell on earth. You must have a very boring life to obsess as you do about a Maltese columnist and Maltese partisan politics. Try watching porn instead – but oh, you probably do that already, and I shudder to think what kind.]

Where are Marie Louise Coleiro, Miriam Spiteri Debono and so many Labour women who’ve made it far more than a toy-shop owner, a marketing manager and a glorified cook? Have you seen the later sporting an apron with PHD in Home Economics splashed on her breasts in a Sunday magazine?

[Daphne – Not just a Sunday magazine, but SAVIOUR BALZAN’S Sunday magazine.]

Why has it become shameful for us Labourites to show off our own people? Do we really think that these ex-MLP-ex-PN-turned into PL sympathisers will win us the election? PS: Ms. Caruana Galizia pardon me for using your popular site to address my fellow Labourites. I’ve tried elsewhere but my comments never made it on-line.

You make it sound as if only a miracle can save us. I find that a very defeatist way of thinking. We might as well just lie down and pray.

No, what we need is shedding some of our arrogance, and listening to what the man in the street is saying and feeling. I mean listen not just hearing (there is quite a difference).

I agree with you 2 years in politics is a very long time. Let’s hope we don’t waste them in making more mistakes like we are doing now.

Tonio Fenech: let them eat stejk.