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Date Posted: 16:28:13 09/27/09 Sun
Author: Gilly
Subject: Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives
In reply to: Ani 's message, "Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives" on 14:59:41 09/27/09 Sun

Hi Daveski,
We did Latin at school but I never got on with it very well. Your ability at languages makes my French A level look a bit sick, but French was the only language they taught at school when I was there. THey started German the year after I left, and the school I went to afterwards as I hated the Grammar so much and did my A levels elsewhere, they started Russian the year after I left there, so I was always a year to late. That school did German but it was too late for me as they started in the 1st year, and there was too much to try and make up seeing I was in the 6th form. There wasn't really a huge choice of careers either for girls back in the late 50s early 60s, not like there is today. If you were clever enough you went to Uni and did something else afterwards, our Head Girl (well the one who was in our year and then became Head Girl in the 6th) became a scientist, one of the others in the gang became a teacher and then a headmistress, one just mooched aimlessly at school with no idea of what she wanted to do, drifted between jobs and then found her niche, and is not the financial manager at one of the computer software companies and doesn't have any book-keeping qualifications at all, it's all experience that's done it. THe rest of us did shorthand typing, Cath started at a law firm as a secretary and they were so impressed with her that they trained her as a legal executive, which for the 60s was quite unusual, and the rest of us ended up as typists or secretaries. Of 11 of us 4 are still married to their first partners (obviously made the right choice first time round), 2 of us are on our second husbands, 1 on her third but bery happy with him and has been with him for 25 years, and 2 have never married, 1 lives in Oz, 1 lives in Texas, 1 (the one who became a headmistress) has bought a smallholding in France and lives there with her husband, and the rest of us are still in the UK, but all still in touch after all these years (I left that particular school in 1961, as did some of the others and the rest in 63).

Gilly

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Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Dave in Kg., 05:46:17 09/30/09 Wed