Okay, English is messed up, almost fainted just about a minute - TopicsExpress

Okay, English is messed up, almost fainted just about a minute ago... So my son be saying Ya mama, I found this word in this word puzzle, I cant find my pencil to circle the word me: Okay, what is the word? him: It is spelt h.o.e me: (sure maybe he is just speling up a part of the word, not the whole word. Surely that sort of word would not be in a school book, let alone an elementry phase school book. What? Come, show me that word He brought the book to me and I saw the word h.o.e.. I froze for a second then did the next best thing, went to google on my phone define hoe Google: hoe 1 /həʊ/ noun a long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding. Ikhuba ngesiXhosa... Disclaimer: We were not speaking in English, we do no such thing in this house...