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MissAdventure Thu 17-Jan-19 15:41:03

I've just had a message from the school.
"If your child has accidentally brung home a coat..." shock

MissAdventure Thu 17-Jan-19 21:43:24

Yes, I think they may as well have written that. smile

BradfordLass72 Thu 17-Jan-19 21:45:50

They probably got one of the Littlies to write it - teachers are SO busy these days.

BTW Has anyone noticed the propensity to write, 'prolly' rather than 'probably'?

Grammaretto Thu 17-Jan-19 22:21:19

It will have been someone in the office.
Seeing as "your" instead of "you're" is the norm everywhere now. I am not surprised about brung - although autocorrect doesn't like it

Day6 Thu 17-Jan-19 22:26:46

Who writ that then? wink The culprit at the school should be outed!

Jalima1108 Fri 18-Jan-19 00:15:10

It could have been me although I don't remember being there.

I accidentally brunged a coat out of the cloakroom at nursery, put it on DGD who did not say 'this isn't mine' and we started walking home.

Mother of the owner of said coat chased up the road after me and brunged me back again.

MissAdventure Fri 18-Jan-19 00:16:25

Well, I'm glad you brang that to our attention. smile

Charleygirl5 Fri 18-Jan-19 09:14:42

MissAdventure did you brang that to anybody's attenshun at the skool? You should have done.

dragonfly46 Fri 18-Jan-19 09:17:08

I think I could not let this one go. As an ex teacher myself it really brings (bringed/brung) the profession into disrepute.

Charleygirl5 Fri 18-Jan-19 09:23:54

I agree dragonfly coming out of a school, to me, it is 10 times worse than seeing pear's and apple's for sale at discounted prices, advertised locally.

Niobe Fri 18-Jan-19 09:34:20

Before I retired I was a teacher in Glasgow and one day the classes were being called over the tannoy to have photographs taken in the assembly hall. I had a class of 14 year olds when one of the deputy head teachers came on the tannoy to request " Would class xx come tae the hall tae git thir photies took". Being a polite person I said nothing, the class fell silent, I glanced at them, they looked at each other and then at me before every single one burst out laughing. Including me!

Charleygirl5 Fri 18-Jan-19 09:46:54

OMG Niobe I hope she did not teach English.

Greta Fri 18-Jan-19 14:41:43

The English language is full of pitfalls. (I almost wrote 'potholes!). Perhaps the verb 'bring' was confused with "ring, rang, rung".

grandtanteJE65 Sat 19-Jan-19 13:18:58

Niobe, I'm sure you know the old joke about that lady teaching in the Gorbals in Glasgow who ignored the bell one day, whereupon a boy said, "Please miss, the bell has went." She replied, "No, it hasn't". The child replied, "I said, Miss, the bell has goed!"

Niobe Sat 19-Jan-19 14:34:13

Charliegirl she was , fortunately, not an English teacher. We did wonder how she had got her promoted posts but everyone assumed that her written Englsh was of a good standard.
GrandetanteJE65 grin I've lost count of the times I heard ' Miss, that's the bell went!' from my pupils as they got ready to go.

Nanny27 Thu 24-Jan-19 12:30:21

English teacher sitting here hanging head in shame.

Kittye Thu 24-Jan-19 15:59:47

I have a problem with people saying “ I brought ( bought) such and such from the supermarket !!

00mam00 Fri 08-Feb-19 09:14:58

KITTY, first they bought it at the supermarket, then they brought it home, just a few words missing. (Wink)

Rufus2 Tue 12-Feb-19 11:07:25

Here's an elegant word I've learned today! Our ISP has " anonymized ' our data in order to give it to 3rd. parties! Is that reversible?

Jalima1108 Tue 12-Feb-19 11:15:48

That's the American spelling too Rufus - be afraid, be very afraid about where your data is being held shock