People in UK saying "high school"

[Davros]

I've noticed this term being used more and more. To me it's "Senior" or "Secondary" school. Schools with the old fashioned divisions have "Lower, Middle and Upper". Even if you follow the American usage it isn't the same as our Senior, i believe it is years 10, 11, 12 and 13. Why are people calling Senior school High school? I know, each to their own blah blah

Just like plimsolls/ daps

They were, bizarrely, called 'sandshoes' in 1970s Fife primary schools.

Thefreaks gotten sets my teeth on edge when used by someone with an estuary or RP English accent because it sounds anachronistic and contrived. It has long since fallen out of use for many English speakers, and readopting it is as odd as readopting "forsooth" or trying to speak like an American hip hop star when you come from Croydon...

Sandshoes in 1970s Stirlingshire too! Also known as ‘ten bob sliders’

TheFreaks I wonder where sandshoes came from! As far as I remember they were exclusively worn indoors. Maybe they were used for the long jump or something...

I wasn't suggesting we all readopt it, blueskies just saying I liked it, and it was an old form, not an Americanism.

I'd love forsooth to come back into common usage, though!☺️

I beleive it was always High School in Scotland. I had a pen pal on the Isle of Harris and she want to High School. I went to private school in England and it was Senior school. My friends who went to the local Comprehensive called it Secondary school - and that is where my kids went too.

Ahhhh.... we've moved on I see....

daps for primary PE shoes
rough book or exercise book for jotter.

Nobody is intimately acquainted with every variant of the English language given that it's spoken worldwide, and an official language in over 70 countries!

I agree Blue which is why I queried the disbelief/surprise/multiple exclamations tin your post.

Why rather than saying “I didn’t know that, how interesting” would you tell Stoorie who is clearly a Scottish English speaker that she’s wrong?

Which is what you did.

Sand shoes in my part of Northumberland, too. Carried in a sand shoe bag, which was like a small, handmade duffel bag. No idea if they're still used.

No I didn't Pink - you've inferred that for some reason, but I certainly didn't say it.

@Davros

"Even if you follow the American usage it isn't the same as our Senior, i believe it is years 10, 11, 12 and 13."

No. While we do attend for 13 years in the U.S., we only start assigning numbers to grades after kindergarten.

For high school it goes: 9th grade (Freshmen), 10th grade (Sophomore), 11th grade (Junior), 12th grade (Senior).

You said you didn’t believe her Blue (though you misunderstood what she said) and then asked if she actually meant it was idiom rather than actual usage.

That’s where I inferred it from.

trying to speak like an American hip hop star when you come from Croydon - you've met my daughter then? Ha Ha!
(she was born in Croydon but I always say "if anyone asks you were born in Surrey")
(no offence to Croydon. I like Croydon. I am off there to the shops right now!!)

I come from South London,my dad was from Essex, Mum was Irish. I also had sand shoes in a little drawstring sand shoe bag my mum made. Of course, by the time I went to my South London High School, my shoes had gotten too big for the little bag.

I have just had a flashback memory of my girl aged about 3 proudly telling some big girls in the park when we were staying at my folks in Oxfordshire that "I'm from Sarf Laandon" and I hadn't realised how much of a strong South London accent my little baby had!!

I didn't say I didn't believe her Pink - I asked for clarification and said that I didn't believe that the word why wasn't used at all. "I don't believe" was a phrase used as an intensifier, not to call her a liar! I was surprised (as indicated by the exclamation marks, which are also intensifiers) and was saying "surely you don't mean that why isn't used at all".

I thought that was obvious, but obviously it wasn't!

It's an oversimplification to claim "if you thought X you'd have writen exactly the words I feel were the right ones, and your choice of any other words means you thought something else".

Clearly what I wrote was open to misinterpretation, like many casually typed forum posts. I certainly wasn't implying what you inferred.

Loon very clever

Although no jotters or moms...

It's an oversimplification to claim "if you thought X you'd have writen exactly the words I feel were the right ones, and your choice of any other words means you thought something else".

But that’s not what I said Blue. I didn’t even nearly say that.

And I would dispute that “I don’t believe you” is ever appropriate as an intensifier in written language to a stranger.

Worcestershire here too and most high schools are called high school! Clearly

High School is perfectly acceptable here.

Loon

I think you also stating that YOU have ‘never heard of how being used for why’ followed up by ‘I don’t believe that why is not used in Scotland’ kinda reads as if you are calling me a liar when you misinterpreted what I wrote

Jotters is perfectly acceptable too.