Your mum never let you read Westward Ho! ?? I guess "The Big Sky" by A.B. Guthrie would not of been in your manse library shelves either. Poor lad. Me own mum disapproved of the poor mountain man lingo that was in that book, being an English teacher to poor American children as she was.
"Speak English!" I keep yelling at my Filipina wife. "Ag bagtit ka!" (Crazy are you!) she hurls back.
