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Original poster

to find it a bit odd and laugh in front of the teacher....

47 replies

2shoes · 04/03/2009 11:12

that the CA doen't know her done's from her did's....

$$$ done good work!!!

It was ok teach laughed as well as we were having that kind of conversation>

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TimorousWeeBeastie · 04/03/2009 11:14

crikey, I wouldn't be too impressed with the CA and would wonder how they got the job!

Madmentalbint · 04/03/2009 11:18

That is one of my pet hates!
YANBU

Original poster
2shoes · 04/03/2009 11:18

(it is a sn school and all the CA's are wonderful)but ...

OP posts:
fryalot · 04/03/2009 11:20

2shoes being...

erm...

pedantic!!!

get yerself over to pendants' corner, missus!

Original poster
2shoes · 04/03/2009 11:21

lol come on
done .....did
is easy english

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fryalot · 04/03/2009 11:23

oh, YANBU btw

mrsgboring · 04/03/2009 11:23

It's a dialect form and therefore correct, though not Standard English.

But I feel your pain. Today, DS's nursery class were learning about "a country called Africa."

Original poster
2shoes · 04/03/2009 11:29

oh dear I had to really think about that.
it is a continent.

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DaphneMoon · 04/03/2009 11:30

me too 2shoes

fryalot · 04/03/2009 11:33

when dd1 was in primary school, she came home convinced that Robert Louis Stephenson invented the train

Original poster
2shoes · 04/03/2009 11:33

didn't he?

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DaphneMoon · 04/03/2009 11:39

LOL 2shoes Did we go to the same school?

fryalot · 04/03/2009 11:40

nuh. Twas Robert Stevenson who invented the Rocket (a train thingy)

Robert louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island

cornflakegirl · 04/03/2009 11:44

Um. George Stephenson invented the Rocket.

TimorousWeeBeastie · 04/03/2009 11:52

Lol.

fryalot · 04/03/2009 17:04

of course he did

But I knew it wasn't Robert Louis Stephenson

(sorry, a momentary knowledge block!)

cornflakegirl · 04/03/2009 17:32

His son Robert worked with him in the engineering business - maybe you were thinking of him?

fryalot · 04/03/2009 21:59

yes, that must be it

Original poster
2shoes · 04/03/2009 22:00

who discovered the telphone?

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fryalot · 04/03/2009 22:06

Antonio Meucci

Gracie123 · 04/03/2009 22:08

We were scoping out nurseries and my husband ruled one out before we got to reception because their poster on the wall had a country labeled 'Sweedon'

Rascal1979 · 05/03/2009 09:21

Earlier this week my DD key worker wrote on her daily sheet that she had eaten all her 'corshets' I asked what it was and the other nursery nurse couldn't work it out ( I knew full well that she meant courgette as I'd seen the menu!)

debs40 · 05/03/2009 09:25

When I was at school, at 7, I had an argument with a teacher who told me that Glasgow was Scotland's capital...had to sit on my own too

tallulahbelly · 05/03/2009 11:27

When I was about seven I had to describe what I did at the weekend.

I said we went to Blenheim Palace. (My parents were always making me do things like that ).

My teacher corrected it and told me to always remember the i before e rule

fryalot · 05/03/2009 11:51

debs - when I was at school I got in trouble for correcting the Geography teacher. She told us that the DC in Washington DC stood for Democratic Capital.

I said "no, it's District of Columbia" and told me I was wrong on two counts, one it was Democratic Capital and two, Washington is not in Columbia, it is in Washington State.

My dad had to go in with an atlas

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