What Do They Teach In Schools........?

Let’s hope she doesn’t go to see the musical Six! As she will feel short changed 😆

Clearly been confused by his regnal number...

She's done OK then, if she's writing the articles you read.

Divorced, beheaded, died, died. Divorced, beheaded survived, survived?

I wonder who she thinks the other two are - Mary Magdalene and Madonna?

I think it is probably very easy to make unintended slip ups when being interviewed on T V, through nervousness.

I sometimes have to think twice. Is it Henry VIII and his six wives or is it Henry VI and his eight wives?

Well he was cavorting about on Strictly on Saturday - hilarious.

Ilovecheese

I think it is probably very easy to make unintended slip ups when being interviewed on T V, through nervousness.

Roxy S wrote it in an article.
Henry VIII is well known for many things: his eight wives, his desperate quest for an heir, his break with Rome, and the beheading of a huge amount of people under his orders including two of his wives.

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Ilovecheese

I think it is probably very easy to make unintended slip ups when being interviewed on T V, through nervousness.

Roxy S wrote it in an article.
Henry VIII is well known for many things: his eight wives, his desperate quest for an heir, his break with Rome, and the beheading of a huge amount of people under his orders including two of his wives.

Oh dear. Roxy Simons is a TV and film reporter.

How old is this journalist?

Children are allowed to drop history after Key Stage 3 now.

huge amount

Oh dear again. Huge number when referring to items that can be counted eg people.

MissAdventure

She's done OK then, if she's writing the articles you read.

Get in there 😂

Who reads the entertainment page of yahoo 🤷‍♀️

petra

Who reads the entertainment page of yahoo 🤷‍♀️

Who knew there was one? 😁

Yahoo is most annoying, it can take over if you ever look at it on your device.

petra

MissAdventure

She's done OK then, if she's writing the articles you read.

Get in there 😂

So many people out of work, one can only ask "Why"?

It has got nothing to do with what schools teach, it is how much interest the pupil has and how much value they placed on their studies.

You should not blame teachers for lazy indifferent pupils.

Part of the problem is a lack of sub-editors presumably. There seems to be very little checking of grammar, spelling, pronounciation - or facts, it seems - in today’s media. I’ve heard two different BBC journalists mispronounce ‘femme fatale’ just this week. It’s French, innit?!
I do wonder if these mistakes are ever picked up by their editors. Or maybe they don’t know the basics either!

Parsley3

I sometimes have to think twice. Is it Henry VIII and his six wives or is it Henry VI and his eight wives?

Ha! Ha!

M0nica

It has got nothing to do with what schools teach, it is how much interest the pupil has and how much value they placed on their studies.

You should not blame teachers for lazy indifferent pupils.

👏👏👏

mae13

Parsley3

I sometimes have to think twice. Is it Henry VIII and his six wives or is it Henry VI and his eight wives?

Ha! Ha!

He may have executed about 57,000 people.

He really was a nasty piece of work.

I think it is unlikely he executed 57,000 people. i would like to see the evidence for that.

He was a brilliant and gifted - and very complicated man, He suffered from recurrent head traumas during sporting activities, the worst episode of which was in 1536 when he was unconscious for 2 hrs. In the years following this he suffered from amnesia, impulse control, sociopathy, depression, headaches, insomnias and possibly low testosterone. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967586815006803 which contributed to, and probably explains his tyrannical autocratic and erratic behaviour in later years.

That's interesting, because a lot if modern day killers have a head trauma, somewhere in their past.

Kate54

Part of the problem is a lack of sub-editors presumably. There seems to be very little checking of grammar, spelling, pronounciation - or facts, it seems - in today’s media. I’ve heard two different BBC journalists mispronounce ‘femme fatale’ just this week. It’s French, innit?!
I do wonder if these mistakes are ever picked up by their editors. Or maybe they don’t know the basics either!

I forget where, but the other day I heard a presenter referring to the RENaissance, instead of reNAISSance. He did sound like the sort of person who’d know, so I did wonder whether he’d actually never heard it pronounced before.

IIRC it was in connection with the BBC TV prog the other day about early renaissance Florence, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, the Medicis, etc. Which incidentally was v interesting.

Witzend

Kate54

Part of the problem is a lack of sub-editors presumably. There seems to be very little checking of grammar, spelling, pronounciation - or facts, it seems - in today’s media. I’ve heard two different BBC journalists mispronounce ‘femme fatale’ just this week. It’s French, innit?!
I do wonder if these mistakes are ever picked up by their editors. Or maybe they don’t know the basics either!

I forget where, but the other day I heard a presenter referring to the RENaissance, instead of reNAISSance. He did sound like the sort of person who’d know, so I did wonder whether he’d actually never heard it pronounced before.

IIRC it was in connection with the BBC TV prog the other day about early renaissance Florence, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, the Medicis, etc. Which incidentally was v interesting.

Renaissance is a French word so the English version would be a corruption of the original where the emphasis is not on the first syllable.

Well apparently estimates vary between 57,000 and 72,000