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Thursday, 6 June 2019

A misalliance: a rant.

The animals [they say] went in two by two, Hurrah! Hurrah!
The animals went in two by two, Hurrah! Hurrah!
The animals went in two by two, the elephant and the kangaroo...

...hang on. 

The elephant and the kangaroo?

But I thought the animals went into the ark in, you know, matched pairs.

Well, the elephant and the kangaroo...

...they must have had a challenging time repopulating the earth, aren't they?

And there must be some great big holes all over Australia.

File:Flying-kangaroo.jpg
photo by PanBK

Word To Use Today: kangaroo. Rather sadly, despite the stories, this word is not a native Australian version of there he goes! It is from a native Australian language, Guugu Yimidhirr, but the word means, well, kangaroo (a large black one, as it happens). The original word in Guugu Yimidhirr is gaNurru, which must have been slightly misheard by Capt Cook and Joseph Banks.

By the way, elephants and kangeroos aren't kosher, so they would have gone into the ark in pairs. Kosher animals went in, of course, in sevens. 

Presumably five of those got sacrificed or eaten.


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