Midwives…

I think English needs to be reviewed some of the words that queen Elizabeth made us learn and use do not make sense.

Kenyans are proud of having learn't the British English and they proudly write, among the languages they know and speak fluently, British English is one of them. And since queen Elizabeth is still the queen of the land whose first teachers of English came from this English belongs to her.

A midwife is somebody trained to deliver babies.  My lecturer used to say that the meaning of the word is found in the word itself, let’s define the term ‘midwife’ "mid"–found or occurring in or around the center of or halfway through something. "Wife"–is the woman to whom a man is married. Now let us get the meaning of the word…  I can only think, they are called midwives because in one way or the other they get to see what the husband sees when he is with his wife.

The word does not even reflect on the male nurses who assist during child birth. English language should be reviewed if the King Jameth version of the bible was reviewed and the English simplified, why not some of these English words. 

The interesting thing is that we have used these words until we do not question them or even think of changing them. I think we would even feel guilty of changing those words. What would the queen say, if she heard that we are questioning some of these words? 

Am sure you are also wondering like me if we decided to change a word like midwife what will it be replaced with…sometimes it feels like, it would be a lot of work reviewing some of these words…other times I wonder whether it is really worth the energy… others times I wonder why change now the words are not hurting anyone they just words and we have other important things to do than challenge the British English but if we are reviewing our cultural practices why not review English words too…and since Kenya these days we have started vetting everything, it will not be a big hassle we are already doing it anyway…

Vote for me and I promise when I get to power male birth attendants you will not be called mid-wives again… 

VOTE for the VETTING PARTY… THE FUTURE IS HERE!

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