The application form for the renewal of an Identity Card requires me to provide the number of my telefown, the number of my mowbajl and my imejl address.

How ridiculous can we get?

The original spelling of these words, telephone, mobile and e-mail, was easily recognisable to all those who had decided to make use of these modern devices.

If anything, it is this new spelling that makes you stare at the words before realising what they stand for. They look neither Maltese nor English.

I dread the day when I would have to remind some government department that I had already sent them a number of imejlijiet!

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