Sir Matthew Begbie Elementary School renamed wək̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm

The Vancouver Sun ^ | Dec 10, 2022 | Tiffany Crawford

[Mr Ramsbotham]

As the sheriff said in that old Three Stooges episode Whoops, I'm an Indian: "These injuns are either drunk or crazy!"

[null and void]

WHAT??? No schwa, ə, from the Schwartz???

[null and void]

Retired Marine, please?

[moovova]

Your ESG score will suffer if you mispronounce that name.

[Flint]

Not to be confused with shcha (щ).

[Bob434]

W ell now there’s a name that just rolls right off the tongue

[Clioman]

I have no fonts.

[rxh4n1]

B!u@l#l$s%h^i&t

[rxh4n1]

Everyone will still call it Begbie School.

[yldstrk]

Oh for pity’s sake

[freefdny]

You beat me to it.

[freefdny]

Why does it have to be named after a Chief? And Eagle Eye is almost certainly a man so when do we stop promoting patriarchy and hierarchy in society. Name it after a low level fairly useless female member of the tribe. That’s equality.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“To the victors go the spoils” has become “you victors are losers!”

[Eleutheria5]

The Irish generally don’t speak Gaelic, either. Just their own dialect of English.

[KittyKares]

The school “was built with Canadian mass timber, a new type of engineered wood that reduces greenhouse gas emissions.”

I don’t even know what that means. Does wood give off carbon emissions when it’s dead?

[dljordan]

The First Peoples, aren’t.

[Delta 21]

Thats some kinda sleestack drivel you got goin on there.

[Delta 21]

Its all pops and buzzes here. Hey Luther, what are these goofballs saying?

[MCSETots]

It’s bad enough that the students couldn’t spell “Sir Matthew Begbie Elementary,” now . . .

[17th Miss Regt]

It’s now called wək̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm, which in English means “the sun rising over the horizon.”

It actually means, "Pulled fast one, you stupid Karens. Now where is my money?"