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mrsmopp Wed 18-Jun-14 14:04:29

Colleague comes back from lunch, sopping wet.
"It's literally raining cats and dogs out there", she says. The pedant in me wants to yell, "No, it's Not!!"
But this kind of thing is happening a lot, isn't it?
"I was literally over the moon!"
"I was literally killing myself laughing."
Oh it does annoy me.

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Penstemmon Thu 26-Jun-14 23:02:33

It's probably obvious but I did NOT got to a grammar school.

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whenim64 Thu 26-Jun-14 23:16:30

I did, Penstemmon and nearly got flung out. I took one O level and left under a cloud, with my English language distinction and pedantic tendencies intact! grin Disgraceful, though I says it myself!

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Ana Thu 26-Jun-14 23:20:50

A distinction? When did they change the grading system? It was always 1,2,3 etc when I did O levels.

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annodomini Thu 26-Jun-14 23:22:24

Anyone who finds it boring, needn't poke his/her nose into this corner. We didn't have 'grammar schools' in Scotland (apart from a certain private institution in Glasgow), but mostly we attended Academies before the word was adapted to its current use in England.

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whenim64 Thu 26-Jun-14 23:37:16

You're probably right, Ana. I was typing the words and remembering the sneer on the headmistress's face as she handed me my results and commented 'huh! To pass with distinction and put in no effort! You should not really have taken that exam!' I was a persistent truanter who had discovered The Rolling Stones and she loathed me with a passion. Oh well.....

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