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i t i r t i iiiitii uuon sick day gratuities not affordable the newlyelected provin cial tories are making changes to the way things are done and money is spent in ontario heres a sugges tion for change the ontario taxpayers federation reports retirement bonuses to retiring teachers for unused sick days cost york region taxpayers19 mil lion in 1993 it adds that as of the same year the provinces school boards are liable for payments of more than 900 million to future retiring teachers the york public school board paid out 1525572 in retirement gratuities in 1993 according to the h3i 1111 lb viewpoint kjltv 1 shi paula crowell report the separate board paid out 407516 and is recorded as having 12 mil lion in unfunded liability toward these payouts the law says employees cannot be paid more than half their final years salary in gratu ities the ontario taxpayers federation is asking the provincial government to legislate an end to such pay outs jn most boards these payouts are defined in the collective agreement signed with the teachers union but the question that arises is why should teachers or anyone else be paid for the sick days they dont use such policies are rarely found in the private sector and if they are theyre not funded by taxpayers some boards like the sep arate board in waterloo county and the windsor board of education dont pay such gratuities others have reduced the payout amount for teachers hired more recently and its not just teachers who receive such a golden handshake many munici pal employees are also cred ited for their unused sick days as are government employees at the provincial and federal level such bonuses are not in keeping with the times in which we live it is not enough for school boards to gradually ease out of this responsibility through the collective bargaining process the provincial gov ernment should introduce legislation which prohibits all publiclyfunded organi zations from paying out sick day gratuities to all employ ees- from the top down the tribune weekender edition a meiroland community newspaper patricia pappas publisher jo ann stevenson editorinchief andrew mair general manajereditor debraweller director of advertising barry goodyear director of distribution vivian cneil business manager pamela nichols operations manager stwffyiub all enquiries 1905 6402100 fax 905 6405477 g244mainst stouffville ont uxbrlpfib all enquiries 905 8329741 fax 905 8524355 88 brock st w uxbridge out the tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the metroland printing pub lishing and distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes markham econo mist and sun ajax pickering news advertiser auroranewmarket era banner barrio advance brampton guardian burlington post cityparent collingwood connection etobicoke guardian georgetown independentacton free press kingston this week lindsay this week milton canadian champion misissauga news northumberland news north york mirror oakville beaver orillia today oshawa-whitby- clarington this week peterborough this week richmond hillathornhillvaughan liber al scarborough mirror ibdays seniors con tents not to be reproduced without written per mission from the publisher permit 1247 know any ugly words adam by brian basset ummmjia 1ha1pash ofthe tabrjuueh xahiwf mfc7ree the only system of currency with any real value is the one we all carry around in our heads language which is made up of pennies and nickels and dimes and quarters that we call words words from one language dont always play harmonically in another bob dylan sang that spanish is a loving tongue but to french purists it is the lan guage of washerwomen most anglophones find the sound of german guttural unpleasant im not sure how germans would describe the noise we english speakers make but barbaric would probably cover it makes you wonder if there could ever be a universal lan guage pleasing to all ears a half a century ago a norwegian author by the name of agnar s mykle wrote a book called song of the red ruby in it he fanta sized about creating the perfect twoword introduction between a man and a woman the man would look at the woman and murmur tananarivo and the woman if she was available and interested would whisper back atacama just two words wrote mykle would be enough to give happiness and smiling freedom to all mankind unfortunately in the nasty 90s any guy walking up to a strange woman and muttering tananarivo is liable to earn himself two rather different words some words are almost uni versal mama is virtually identical in all the romance language a psychologist at new york university claims that the nonsense word juvala- rau is intensely pleasing to just about everybody while the word chakaka is horrible to the ears of english speakers isnt there a rock group called basic black arthurblack ghakaka if not there will be soon you dont have to be a poet to know that the english lan guage is full of beautiful words flange is one of my favorites i also like quiver somebody once asked american linguist wilfred j funk for his opinion on beautiful english words he responded with a list of 10 chimes dawn golden hush lullaby luminous melody mist murmuring and tranquil as for ugly words well eng lish has those too a few years ago members of the national association of teachers of speech came up with a list of the 10 ugliest words in our lan guage the nominations are cacoph ony crunch flatulent gripe jazz phlegmatic plump pluto crat sap and treachery all of which makes me sus pect the nats suffer from pickle implantation in an anatomical region suffering from negligible sunshine you want ugly how about vict uals try flak or glottis or kibosh of course i have an unfair advantage over the national association of teachers of speech nats is an american organization whereas i am canadian we canucks know the true meaning of ugly words didnt we give the world a brand new word that sets a whole new standard for foul mouthing mulroney now thats talking dirty