Toastmasters or Badminton?

[Bilthehut]

I think Mince chose his name as a covert assertion of his individuality.
"Mince pies" is of course Cockney rhyming slang for "eyes".


...and there's no eye in team.



 

There is "me" though!

[The Peepmaster]

He took the name "Mince" from the old Cherokee, (more properly spelled Tsalagi), language. This is an Iroquoian language with an innovative written syllabary invented by a Cherokee scholar.

Around 22,000 people speak Tsalagi today, primarily in Oklahoma and North Carolina. Though it is one of the healthier Indian languages of North America and the one in which the most literature is published.

Tsalagi is still in imperiled condition because of government policies as late as the fifties which enforced the removal of Cherokee children from Tsalagi-speaking homes, reducing the number of young Cherokees being raised bilingually from 75% to less than 5% today.

It means "Twat".

[Vulture]

He took the name "Mince" from the old Cherokee, (more properly spelled Tsalagi), language. This is an Iroquoian language with an innovative written syllabary invented by a Cherokee scholar.

Around 22,000 people speak Tsalagi today, primarily in Oklahoma and North Carolina. Though it is one of the healthier Indian languages of North America and the one in which the most literature is published.

Tsalagi is still in imperiled condition because of government policies as late as the fifties which enforced the removal of Cherokee children from Tsalagi-speaking homes, reducing the number of young Cherokees being raised bilingually from 75% to less than 5% today.

It means "Twat".  Of course it does!

[The Peepmaster]

"Twat" for short, I should have said. The full translation is "Twat who swims with the pilchards".

[Bilthehut]

Even I realized that!

[The Peepmaster]

With a "z"!

[Bilthehut]

 That's Apple for you.  I now realise that my default spelling dictionary on the iPad defaults to US rather than UK, and automatically tries to correct my spelling.  Unless I see the pop-up word as I type, it puts what it thinks is the correct word in place of wot I writ.  My fault.  I need to reed the wrds before I press send. 

[Bilthehut]

I stand (or even sit) corrected.  The keyboard dictionary is set for UK, but obviously Apple have assumed we in the UK need further educating to spell like wot they do.