To a recent roundup of whale shark news, I appended a sort of human interest one-liner about how “shark” is the only word in the English language that derives from a Yucatec (Mayan) Indian word – “Xoc ...
The HMAS Darwin plied its way across the shark-infested waters off East Timor. Nothing wrong with that sentence, right? Or not at first glance. But try sharing that message on air, and soon the ...