Re: Kings Canterbury and words

[Guest guest]

Oh, Caro - Kings!! You've made me come over all unnecessary )

We used to sneak out of school at weekends and get a bus/train into

Canterbury to go and watch them play rugby. I had a friend whose brother

boarded there and we'd go and visit him - they were allowed family visitors,

we were definitely wagging.

Words of my youth: " well " as in " I well failed that exam " (actually used

much like 'so' now) and " wicked " - guess that's a long-lived one! Sometimes

even " well wicked " !

Vicki Portman

http://www.plushpants.co.uk

Friends reunited (sorry can't remember name of

original thread)

> The boring thing about having been to all-girls schools is that there

> are no old flames to come across on those friendsreunite lists; and

> presumably one doesn't have access to the boys schools!!! There is

> one old flame at neighbouring boarding school who I would love to know

> what he's up to...also another not old flame from a different boarding

> school (knew in a group) who claimed he was going to get in touch with

> everyone in 25 years time to see how we had done, had unbelievable

> halitosis even at not kissing distance (want to see if there was a

> cure) and turns out probably to be a cousin, ... (yuk!!). He never

> did, from which I conclude that he didn't succeed in his parents

> ambitions for him.

>

> OK I have the solution. Does anyone have DH's who went to Lancing

> College or Kings School, Canterbury, for me??? please??? (or DF's

> for that matter). I want to find out whether the fantastic singer and

> oboeist from Lancing ever did become a monk, though I heard

> unsubstantiated rumours that he was a fellow at All Souls and had

> married (a nun?) He used to write the most incredibly inspiring

> letters about his faith.(not an old flame)

>

> To divert to another thread, are there other people who wanted to be

> friends with boys 'platonically', which seems to have been the very

> much overused word of my late adolescence, before 'really' cut in with

> uni...

>

> And another thread: what were the key words of your youths? The

> current younger people seem to be using 'cool' and 'wicked' - or am I

> out of date already?

>

> Caro

>

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[Guest guest]

For us, 'dead' was the universal adjective - dead funny, dead nice, dead hard.

Joyce

-----Original Message-----

From: Vicki Portman [sMTP:vicki@...]

Words of my youth: " well " as in " I well failed that exam " (actually used

much like 'so' now) and " wicked " - guess that's a long-lived one! Sometimes

even " well wicked " !

[Guest guest]

For us, 'dead' was the universal adjective - dead funny, dead nice, dead hard.

Joyce

-----Original Message-----

From: Vicki Portman [sMTP:vicki@...]

Words of my youth: " well " as in " I well failed that exam " (actually used

much like 'so' now) and " wicked " - guess that's a long-lived one! Sometimes

even " well wicked " !

[Guest guest]

I know, I know - before the grammar police get me, dead is an adverb without the

-ly.

Joyce

A in Higher English

RE: Kings Canterbury and words

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For us, 'dead' was the universal adjective - dead funny, dead nice, dead hard.

Joyce

[Guest guest]

> For us, 'dead' was the universal adjective - dead funny, dead nice, dead

hard.

We often said " What a nightmare "

Which was shortened to " What a mare "

Which was lengthened to " What a Weston-Super-Mare "

And shortened to " What a Weston "

No wonder others didn't know what we were on about!