Mixing Taale

My mom-in-law, Jeanne, works in the Overberg and brought back two stories from a fishing village school. You won't get this if you don't understand Afrikaans.

The teacher asked her class to name as many fish as they could. So they listed Galjoen, Hake, Snoek and so on. The list was long but the teacher pushed them a bit saying, "Surely you know more than that coming from fishing families?"

One little boy eventually piped up, "I know one more! Break-vis."

During a geography lesson she asked the class to think of places that began with letters in the alphabet, but the class struggled with "f" until some bright spark volunteered "f-lone."