Word of the Day

Aweh to the Lions Den massive.

By the greeting in the first line of the blog you will gather that this is the next instalment of: Word Of The Day.

The word Aweh is a word used mainly by the coloured community here in South Africa as a light hearted greeting. Depeneding on how well they know you, various terms will be used after Aweh.

If they know you well the will say: Aweh ma se kind, which is hello mothers child. If you are one of the 'boys' you will be greeted with: Aweh ma se hond, which is hello mothers dog. Although it might seem a bit off, i promise you it is not.

The word Aweh is deep rooted into the coloured community...it defines them as a nation. Sort of like if you ask an American what Americanism describes them most probably they will say that it is Howdy.

However, please dont use a term after Aweh if you do not know the person on any level, they will take offence to this and stab you. If you are visiting South Africa and a coloured person greets you, just say Aweh and nothing else.

The next word is a word whitch describes a particular peice of clothing. It amazes me how many women are not familiar with the term: wife-beater vest yet every man alive knows what it is. its those vests made popular by Vin diesel in a number of his movies which is worn by men but only ocveres a section of their shoulder rather then their whole shoulder.

The last word for today is twat, which is a term used alot by English people.

I came across this word on my many drinking escapades in Dubai with the "Geordie Element" (that is to say a group of Geordie friends I had that just caused trouble wherever they whent). We were drinking in a bar and one of the guys...I think his name was hammer... was making a hell of a noise and lewed remarks to some fine china which were tapping around in 6 inch heels showing off their asset portfolios and their well defined bottom ends. Anyway, so the bouncer comes buy to calm hammer down and he told the bouncer: piss off you twat. The bouncer was Nigerian so he didnt understand the insult and just looked at hammer with daggers and left. Only after that did I discover that twat is a rather nasty referal to a women's...well you get the picture.