Sometimes it’s just the small things that press the bruise isn’t it? 😢
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Well, you did go to school a lot more recently than some of us, Cari 
Thank you, Cari. Fourteen out of fourteen! Wey hey! Offensively triumphalist dance! But I can't take credit for it. I went to secondary school in the 1950s when this is what Eng Lang was about. We did paraphrases and précis and dictation as well. And spelling tests. And my DGS are required to take perfectly good, plain English prose and litter it with unnecessary adjectives and adverbs. And they know they are not learning anything through the activity.
Me too jane, I wonder if we were wrong on the same two questions 
Oh deer, norty Gally - back to skool I fink 
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