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25 April 2003 4 Comments

Girls have cooties. Every young boy can tell you this. Girls may claim that it is in fact boys who have cooties, but that is preposterous. I spent much of second, third and fourth grade avoiding cooties. I also had a number of hand-made cootie catchers, but for some reason, they did not catch or prevent cooties, rather they told fortunes and made predictions, like “You Suck.” But! What is a cootie? My friends, a cootie is a body louse, and it is our fourth Malay contribution to English. It comes from the word kutu which means the exact same thing, lice. Don’t believe me? You may say to yourself, this is a contribution the Malays can keep! But it is too late. Our nation’s youngsters are already infected. All I can offer you is this treatment for head lice that my doctor gave me:

Stand in front of your bathroom mirror. Shave all the hair off the left side of your head. Then, set fire to the hair on the right side. As the lice scurry onto the left side, stab them with an ice pick. There! Head lice will now be the least of your worries.

4 Comments »

dita said:

LOL

but i wonder if kids these days still have cooties… haven’t met one with it since long.

# 29 April 2003 at 3:31 am

Jessie said:

Hahahaha..nice one!!

# 29 April 2003 at 10:43 pm

Nor said:

Saya pernah dengar perkataan ‘compound’, dalam maksudnya ‘kawasan depan rumah’ (?) berasal dari perkataan BM ‘kampung’.. entahlah kalau betul ke tak. (’compound words’ itu ada asal lain ikut pendapatan ini). Ada lagi ke?

# 4 May 2003 at 7:01 am

Bin Gregory Productions said:

Thanks, Nor, you’re right. I’m going to put together a proper post about that right now. As for what other words I’ve got, you’ll just have to check back to see

# 4 May 2003 at 11:54 pm

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