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What slang do you remember school teachers using?

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CrazyUSA Fri 17-Jul-26 16:17:01

One would go good dog rather than good boy.

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Grannybags Fri 17-Jul-26 21:08:04

My teacher called me a tart and a gypsy for getting my ears pierced, which was against school rules.

Imagine that now!

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Oreo Fri 17-Jul-26 21:10:29

None

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MawsRosie Fri 17-Jul-26 21:15:02

Harris27

Crettons.

Cretins is not exactly slang.but highly offensive and inappropriate.
I think they’d be sacked for that now.

A cretin is an offensive term for someone regarded as stupid, foolish, or boorish. The word derives from the French crétin and was originally a medical term for people affected by congenital hypothyroidism, a condition that caused severe physical stunting and intellectual disability

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Greenfinch Fri 17-Jul-26 21:34:10

What a very strange question. Would anyone be remotely interested in this topic?

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Nightsky2 Fri 17-Jul-26 21:45:09

Greenfinch

What a very strange question. Would anyone be remotely interested in this topic?

No they would not.

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srn63 Fri 17-Jul-26 21:52:15

Grammar school pupil here, no slang.

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Fallingstar Fri 17-Jul-26 22:02:31

My teachers didn’t use slang.

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Bellanonna Fri 17-Jul-26 22:15:42

Same as sago and charleygirl. I don’t think our nuns would have known any slang. Half of them were French anyway.

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JenniRen Fri 17-Jul-26 22:58:58

None whatsoever, although we were always told we had brains like sieves.

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nanna8 Sat 18-Jul-26 02:09:05

Certainly none. They were mostly unmarried very respectable women who spoke totally correctly and corrected their pupils if they misused the English language.

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