Friday, May 19, 2006

Goverment of Saskatchwan [double sic]

In honour of a good friend who has the misfortune of actually having to live there, a political post from Yahoo News that made me laugh. The only problem is that this takes the fun out of Rick Mercer's Talking to Americans when even we Canucks fuck it up too:

Missing "e" causes grief for Saskatchewan party
Thu May 18, 4:42 PM ET
A missing 'e' has put a Canadian provincial party firmly on the defensive after the opposition Saskatchewan Party spelled the name of its own province wrong.
The mistake showed up in a television commercial that listed complaints about the accomplishments of the present provincial government, but spelled Saskatchewan as Saskatchwan.
In a previous document, the party had missed the 'n' from the word government.
"Mr. Speaker, if you can't spell government and you can't spell Saskatchewan, but you want to be the government of Saskatchewan, you'd think you'd at least get one of them right," Premier Lorne Calvert said of the gaffes.
The party wants to oust Calvert's government in the next election, which is likely in the next year or so.
"The opposition is using this to question our credibility," said Ian Hanna, Saskatchewan Party's director of communications.
The word Saskatchewan comes from "Kisiskatchewani Sipi," the Cree name for the Saskatchewan River that means swiftly flowing river. It was altered to Keiskatchewan before the modern spelling was adopted in 1882, according to Natural Resources Canada.