Subtle distinction here:

If you refer to the team by name then you use 'IT'. Thus,'Harambee stars will have a good chance to enter the World Cup finals if it win its next game'

However,when you refer to the team in the name of the country,you use 'they'. Thus: 'Kenya will have a good chance to enter the World Cup finals if they win their next game'

Subtle distinction here:

If you refer to the team by name then you use 'IT'. Thus,'Harambee stars will have a good chance to enter the World Cup finals if it win its next game'

However,when you refer to the team in the name of the country,you use 'they'. Thus: 'Kenya will have a good chance to enter the World Cup finals if they win their next game'

i agree with Mukiha in toto

A journey of a thousand miles start with a cash advance

heheh hihiih.. ' riuri ni ndetigira kwaria githungu'

so every time i went to the deputy headteacher and borrowed permission to go home i was wrong?.. aiihhhh

muthomi mugi aiikagia maitho kabere...

also not forgetting that when refering to the ship's cargo or the crew,you use her.....the ship sailed with her cargo and crew on the high seas.....

with the aircrafts i dont know if the same applies...


NEVER TALK OF A RHINO IF THERE IS NO TREE NEAREBY - ZULU PROVERB

This is going to be very helpful at the end of the day because most of us Kenyans speak kenyan englais. We start sentences with words such as si,kwani,ati et al and conjugate our sentences using the same words.I find that a malady that is unique to us. Interestingly,most of us are ok with it until we converse with a foreigner who can not understand what we are saying.

@ Tusker,
both phrases are incomplete.It is suppose to be item x for sale OR on offer for sale.

Patience Pays in Guaranteed Checks

For 'schedule' vs. 'skedule' that is British vs. American English. I did encounter that a couple of times in Canada where my friends were like did you just say? You know when I say trousers instead of pants,lorry-truck,boot-trunk etc.

BMW

@slykat: Then I would assume that wherever that sleep will be had will be construed to be a 'bed'! Regardless,you don't go to sleep! There's no place called sleep that you can 'go' to!

In-ow-vative or ee-noo-vay-tive? Anyone?


Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time!

Who cares? Have you heard an odiero try speaking Swahili or any of our 100+ mother tongues?
Who is en-googy (for Ngugi) or kochi (for Koech)?



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@Mainat,

Some years back when rally driver Jonathan Toroitich was such a darling of the Kenyan crowd at KICC and there was this BBC correspondent who tried pronouncing his name.....Finally unable to get it right,he blurted out......'Jonathan Totally Rich...'...!!


Guka wa bijuti...