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Date Posted: 02:29:04 09/26/09 Sat
Author: Edie
Subject: Mr McMillan and split infinitives

The wee comments Gilly and I had on grammar brought back memories of Mr. McMillan my 6th grade primary teacher, my first male teacher, and the teacher who took my class to the dreaded 11 plus exam, at Auchinleck Primary School.

Mr McMillan hated with a passion: split infinitives and the ending of sentences with prepositions. He terrified me, it wasn�t the strap he kept hidden under his jacket that scared me, but the fact that he would sometimes, as a punishment, send the troublemaker to stand for 15 minutes in the corridor. And 15 minutes in the corridor meant that there would be a very good chance that the headmaster Wee Baldy Armstrong (sorry Dave but an Armstrong he was) would come along and catch me. I have no idea really why Wee Baldy was considered so terrifying; in hindsight he seems quite a nice man. It was probably just usual schoolyard scaremongering. But if I were seen by Wee Baldy then probably my Mam would find out and that was when the big trouble would really start.

There was a wee song we used to sing at Auchinleck Primary, I can still remember it:

Oor wee school�s a braw wee school
It�s made wi brick and plaster
The only thing that�s wrang wi it
It�s got a baldy master

Edie

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Replies:

Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Edie, 03:11:10 09/26/09 Sat
Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Ani, 05:24:14 09/26/09 Sat
Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Ani, 06:39:21 09/26/09 Sat
- Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Edie, 08:56:12 09/26/09 Sat
  - Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Gilly, 16:35:23 09/26/09 Sat
    - Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Ani, 01:30:02 09/27/09 Sun
      - Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Dave in Kg., 13:07:45 09/27/09 Sun
        Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Ani, 14:59:41 09/27/09 Sun
        Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Gilly, 16:28:13 09/27/09 Sun
        Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Dave in Kg., 05:46:17 09/30/09 Wed
        Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Dave in Kg., 05:38:45 09/30/09 Wed
        Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Ani, 07:08:01 09/30/09 Wed
        Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Dave in Kg., 11:00:09 09/30/09 Wed
        Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Ani, 12:59:50 09/30/09 Wed