How about that class ceiling, woman?

Nikita Zammit Alamango, former paladin of the Labour Youth Movement, current best friend of Cyrus the Sherpa and Taghna Lkoll appointee to the board of the Water Services Corporation and to a job (is that compatible?) as PR official at the government’s utilities billing agency, ARMS, thinks that the “class ceiling” is blocking women from reaching the top.

You know, like a post on the Electoral Commission because clearly, women have already got posts as directors on the board of the Water Services Corporation, based entirely on merit.

And she does that classic thing of confusing the spelling (because of confusion in the way it is pronounced in Malta) of the plural of woman.

‘Women’ is pronounced by Maltese people generally as ‘woman’. You must have noticed that.

The ‘class ceiling’ is a relatively new concept which considers the manner in which candidates are picked for their social background. But what Ms Zammit Alamango is looking for here is the time-honoured GLASS ceiling. Something tells me that’s another pronunciation problem: the difficulties Maltese speakers have with the English hard G which they transmute into a K sound when it occurs at the beginning or end of a word.

In any case, Ms Zammit Alamango is supposed to be a graduate of sorts and she has been appointed to one government corporation directorship and one managerial government job, so there really is no excuse.