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Monday, November 15, 2010

What's Wrong With Motshelo

In Thursday's Mmegi, Sandy Grant makes an invaluable contribution to the small discussion I had in last week's Monitor about the fate of Odi Weavers.

Firstly, it could not go without notice that whereas the spelling of the name was generally presented as Oodi, he points out that it is in fact Odi. That also explains why Otse is not Ootse or Ootsi as the sign boards used to say.

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