Humour

What would you call a bunch of SA parliamentarians?

We need to come up with quirky collective nouns for things like our sports teams and members of political parties

25 October 2020 - 00:03 By and ndumiso ngcobo

A friend recently shared a meme to a WhatsApp group I'm in. It read: "The reason there are so many spelling quizzes in the English language is because English spelling makes no sense." I make a living writing in English. And I cannot agree more violently without organising a march to the Library of Birmingham and burning it to the ground...

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