The Ugandan what

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203 “whats” in 1.5 hours. It must be incorporated into the gunnius book of records.

You must be wondering, what in the world am I talking about? Well, try sitting through a lecture where the lecturer talks like this: “As the department of what? Finance, we have to be what? Careful when doing what? Procurement because of the what? Exchange rate from foreign currencies to the Ugandan what? Shilling. Note that every ‘what’ is said with a high pitched questioning tone.

One of my classmates actually counted how many unnecessary whats were said, with a total of 203. Fascinating. Little wonder that I learnt much more from reading the notes later than in class (which almost never happens…what?).

Apparently many Ugandans learn to speak like this (this lecturer was extreme, but many do actually speak with this pattern) because their primary school teachers use this as a method to ‘engage’ the students…This is what? A. It stands for what? An apple. Oh dear.