Pancreas

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I was talking to one of my Norwegian cousins the other day. Her English, like that of all my Norwegian relatives, is shamingly good, but we discovered that she didn’t know the word “pancreas”. I reached for my English-Norwegian dictionary, but the word isn’t there—it jumps straight from “pancake” to “panda”.

Should any Norwegian dictionary compilers find themselves reading this, I have a heartfelt question: of those three words, which is the one statistically most likely to prove necessary in an emergency?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have never heard anyone say "ooh, me pancreas is playing up". Whereas I have heard people say "I'd like a pancake" or "my panda is refusing to breed".

[chiller.livejournal.com]

I bet you don't know anyone with a panda, and just made that up.

[(Anonymous)]

My next door neighbour has two of them. He even lets them in the house.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

This statement has triggered my middle-class inadequacy gene, and I am now compelled to obtain a pair of breeding white tigers.

[(Anonymous)]

They are a pest though, they eat all the bamboo in my garden, and frighten my koala.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

You need to have a word with that koala and boost its self-esteem. A koala could totally take a panda, given koalas' legendary skill in unarmed wombat.

[(Anonymous)]

Boo.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Oh go on, you loved it.