One for those in education.

[2greys]

I hope that incitement to cheat is not an offense.

[CDPO16]

I own up to cheating in my latin O level and failing it anyway!

[SORRELHIPPO]

I would have needed a lot more space than that.

[Blackbird8 in reply to SORRELHIPPO]

😂😂😂

[watergazer]

😂

[soul-123]

Brilliant going to retake exams now x

[Badbessie]

Lol....I never would have thought of that.

[Ergendl]

The great thing about my New Testament Greek exam was being able to recognise the text from the Greek and write the English answer from memory. With an odd change, of course.

[illawarra]

So funny!

[hypercat54]

Lovely! I must admit when I took an exam 20 years ago in RSA 2 Pitmans Excel I wrote a formula on my arm. I still couldn't do it though I did scrape a pass. Lol

[CDPO16 in reply to hypercat54]

At least your cheating produced a pass. Well done. I really only did latin as I had a crush on the teacher but the language bored me silly!

[Cateran]

My teacher would have smacked my knuckles for spelling offence the American way. He was a sadistic so and so

[2greys in reply to Cateran]

The English language in America evolved in a totally different way. America is made up almost wholly by immigrants from all over Europe. Spellings were likely to have been simplified to make it easier to adopt from their native languages. UK English, is notoriously hard to learn, having virtually no formal structure, because there are just too many exceptions to any rule.

Even the vowels have a lot of exceptions, i,e,a,o,u, and sometimes y. Vowels that have long pronunciations are most often modified by a secondary vowel that's generally silent. In words such as "late" and "tune", the e is added to modify the main vowel sound and make it long; in words such as "goat" and "beat", the modifying vowel is the a; and in words such as "night," "knight," "flight," and "right," the long vowel i is modified by the gh. Confusing or what to foreigners and to some of the native English too, no wonder US English is different.

My daughter was taught to use phonetics at school, as a result , 30 odd years later her spelling still suffers. She is an avid reader of books but her composition is terrible, which makes little sense, obviously the damage has been done and is irreparable. Those in authority claim that "children need to be at school" to get an education, I find that a rather laughable statement as a parent today. Luckily we took the route of "home educating" our son, at the age of 11 he was assessed as having the reading and writing skills of an adult.

I would think an English child who has moved to the US would get their knuckles rapped in return for their UK spelling. It is a an odd, odd world.

[hypercat54 in reply to 2greys]

lexico.com/grammar/british-...

[Jaybird19]

I ve not seen English like that explained before. It might be difficult for others to learn English , but I do find it difficult learning any other language ! My greek was certainly 'all greek ' to all the Greeks I ever met.

I even ended up with 10 cucumbers on one occasion on holiday. !

Loved the cartoon.

[Cateran]

I completely agree with you 2g. We should not be so defensive of British English, which is a rather conservative usage, leading to many spelling anomalies and ignoring phonetic common sense. I think of the song High Hopes, when "ant" rhymes with "plant" but not in RP English.

[kibera]

A little bit off subject - but do you remember 'the initial teaching alphabet' which was introduced in some schools in the 1960's?

[2greys]

I had left school by then and not living in the UK.

[kibera]

I had as well - but a school my daughter moved to (after two years in the infants and during which time she could read well) - we moved to Somerset 1971 and the infants school there used ita - because she was well ahead she was moved up to the juniors where the children were transferring to 'proper' reading and writing - had she been born five days earlier she would have been in the 'juniors' anyway (1 September is start of school year, she was born 4 September)