SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

Here you can nominate any word that is proudly South African for us to read in March.

Then we take the word we voted on and read a book starting with a letter in the word, or a author's name/surname that starts with the letter.

For example:

Z -
U - Uglies
L - Lover Eternal
U -

Nominations will be open until 10th of February.

I nominated SAMP

An African food made from rough corn. It is starchy and is often eaten with haricot or red beans, dunked in gravy stew.

I love samp in some "boontjie sop" :)

My word that I'd like to nominate is TERT.

Yes it could have a very negative vibe to it, but I'm refering to those things that aunties usually make. Yummy Melktert, souttert, appeltert...

Souttert? Is that quiche?

Jip :)
'n Lekker stukkie souttert :)

Now I want souttert!!

Hehe yum yum....
My cousin makes the best souttert! I'll get the recipe and send it to you some time :)

Sounds like a plan :)

Update:


SAMP
TERT

Hehe I think some of us are running out of ideas (and short words) here

Ok, then I'm throwing in some Dutch words which probably will be the same or more or less the same in Afrikaans:
Stoep
Fiets
Kaars
Boem
Duif
Vogel
Mand
How many words do we need?

Lol, you can nominate two words for the challenge :)

I nominate fiets and vogel. I don't know if I have any books to match but hey I like those words!

What's a vogel? And a mand (month?) My Afrikaans is shoddy...

A vogel is a bird, any bird. And a mand is a basket, a month is maand in dutch. Almost the same but totally different meaning. I don't know if the words are the same in Afrikaans, someone else has to say something intelligent about that.

Ah, ok, that makes sense. In Afrikaans:
bird - voel (with an umlaut on the 'e')
basket - mandjie (I think. Not sure if there's a non-diminutive version?)
month - maand

Go Lauren!
Your Afrikaans isn't half as shoddy as you thought

I had a Budgie named Vogel. :D

Cute!

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