To hate the term 'Indie' for private school

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It doesn't make it all cool and edgy .

Awaits a flaming

Not as much as I hate "comp" for comprehensive.

I don't like the term "uni" for university either. But different people have different speech patterns.

I'm usually a live and let live kinda person , but it just annoys me

Oh, god, uni makes my teeth itch!

I do think that "indie" is making a point, though.

'Sink' school is the worst.

I always say uni . I've just realised I'm the only one of my circle who does. Must try and fit in.

Sink school is awful , makes me a bit stabby when I read that , usually on the Indie school threads.

I hate 'Uni' as well. Same as I hate telly, sarnie, bikky, pressie....

But all state schools are "sink schools"............

Gog, earnie is awful. I see your pressie and raise you "crimbo".

YANBU. Can I add "lippy" to the list too? Hearing it puts my teeth on edge. It's university, comprehensive, independent and lipstick for Pete's sake!

Yanbu 'Indie' is the worst out of all of them.

I have no objection to other abbreviations, just 'Indie'

YANBU.

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they're not sure how to spell independant independent.

I may be wrong but ime "indie" is usually adopted by the public school parent equivalent of the noveau riche. It's not something which you normally hear coming from those for whom independent education is a novelty, IYSWIM.

^It's not something which you normally hear coming from those for whom independent education is NOT a novelty", I meant. Sorry.

And that was crap grammar. Ah, shit, I give up!

Placcy as in plastic bad and leccy as in electric

Don't see anything wrong with comp myself.

plastic BAG.

seeker

Hubby, or even worse Hub.

Do people use "Indie" because the school concerned isn't a public school and "private school" doesn't sound quite posh enough?

Oh now that's a thought, seeker. But then why not just say "independent"?

I think they think it sounds all edgy, like.

jenaimarr and seeker

I used to work at an 'indie' school. Some of the parents referred to it as such.
It was for pupils who had been expelled from all other schools within a 100 mile radius and was very expensive!
Not sure what relevance that has but the idea that it falls into the same category as those in the OP makes me chuckle.

I see your "hub" and raise you "hubs". Oh, and "bubs".