Somenglish

Leafing through my mother’s phonebook, I came across, a contact name that made me laugh and remember wistfully back to all the somenglish blunders I and many other Somalis had made in our torturous path toward learning English.

In her plain, distinctively large print she had written: Salafeshin Armi.
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Yes. That is supposed to be Salvation Army.