Deserve or demerit?

Deserve or demerit?

For many of us, the best part of a meal is the dessert; in fact, a meal of just dessert would be a dream! Just lay on the dessert, please! Let us go further, though – bring on many desserts, the more the merrier! Let us be having the trifle, the ice cream, the malva...
COMPLAINT OR COMPLIANT?

COMPLAINT OR COMPLIANT?

What is the difference between a complaint and being compliant? The simple difference may be in the position of the letter ‘I’ but at a wider level, the difference may be seen in where we put the person ‘I’. Is the person who brings a complaint being compliant? A...
I still have not found.

I still have not found.

In the last twenty years, the Me Too movement, founded by Tarana Burke to “assist survivors of sexual violence, especially women of colour” by encouraging them to speak out about their experiences, has gained great credibility around the world. It calls for “healing...
School of Sport: Game set and match.

School of Sport: Game set and match.

Those are magic words, music to the ear even: “game, set and match”! Those are the words any tennis player longs and loves to hear. “Game” is just one small part of it, necessary but short-lived. “Set” is stepping forward further, making a mark. “Match” is the...
Run or ruin — what’s the difference?

Run or ruin — what’s the difference?

In a previous article (‘Education Without an E’ – 7 August 2016), we reflected on a novel written by Ernest Vincent Wright called ‘Gadsby’, which was most striking for the fact that not one word of the fifty thousand words contained the letter E, even though the...