I'll agree with you, once more. I want to get into the Deps in less than 2 months - which until recently I thought was quite fast!! Not having had that rank in Hertford, is it just Deps or the Deps?Great Plum wrote:Scone as in Skon not ScoaneMrs C. wrote:Scone?
Either/ neither?
Subsidence?
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Got me there.Katharine wrote:I'll agree with you, once more. I want to get into the Deps in less than 2 months - which until recently I thought was quite fast!! Not having had that rank in Hertford, is it just Deps or the Deps?Great Plum wrote:Scone as in Skon not ScoaneMrs C. wrote:Scone?
Either/ neither?
Subsidence?
I can't remember anyone being called a dep and only rarely a grecian at school.
Or is it just the memory going.
I'm sure someone will put me right.
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What did you call people in the years above G.E., then?AKAP wrote: Got me there.
I can't remember anyone being called a dep and only rarely a grecian at school.
Or is it just the memory going.
I'm sure someone will put me right.
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memory gone.Richard Ruck wrote:What did you call people in the years above G.E., then?AKAP wrote: Got me there.
I can't remember anyone being called a dep and only rarely a grecian at school.
Or is it just the memory going.
I'm sure someone will put me right.
Perhaps MidA 15 or HH will help me out.
perhaps
"he's a dep" or "he's a grecian" but it dosen't really ring any bells.
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We were known as Grecians and Deputy Grecians (Deps) but as AKAP says the terms were not used that frequently unless reference was being made to the Senior Grecian or Buttoned Grecians.AKAP wrote:memory gone.Richard Ruck wrote:What did you call people in the years above G.E., then?AKAP wrote: Got me there.
I can't remember anyone being called a dep and only rarely a grecian at school.
Or is it just the memory going.
I'm sure someone will put me right.
Perhaps MidA 15 or HH will help me out.
perhaps
"he's a dep" or "he's a grecian" but it dosen't really ring any bells.
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As for scone.
Mother says one, father says the other I go with father, husband goes with mother, children are schizophrenic about it.
Tried to get husband's boss (old Etonian) to say it and he said they had the same problems in his circles.
Daughter says as in stone, cope, rode.
B****y English Language.
Mother says one, father says the other I go with father, husband goes with mother, children are schizophrenic about it.
Tried to get husband's boss (old Etonian) to say it and he said they had the same problems in his circles.
Daughter says as in stone, cope, rode.
B****y English Language.
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During the night the memory clanked into action a bit.Mid A 15 wrote:We were known as Grecians and Deputy Grecians (Deps) but as AKAP says the terms were not used that frequently unless reference was being made to the Senior Grecian or Buttoned Grecians.
I think our 1st A level year we were called
3rd parting (?) grecians (this was the deps year)
2nd A level year
2nd parting grecians
and those who stayed on for a term to do Oxbridge exams were.
1st parting grecians.
The verbose nature of the terminology might explain why we didn't use it to refer to each other.
Can anyone correct and/or expand on this.
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I vaguely remember my father and/or brother using the term parting grecian.AKAP wrote:During the night the memory clanked into action a bit.
I think our 1st A level year we were called
3rd parting (?) grecians (this was the deps year)
2nd A level year
2nd parting grecians
and those who stayed on for a term to do Oxbridge exams were.
1st parting grecians.
The verbose nature of the terminology might explain why we didn't use it to refer to each other.
Can anyone correct and/or expand on this.
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No but it's lovely. Apart from falling down. Will be sad to move out.AKAP wrote:Hope you don't own it.Ruthie-Baby wrote:I still don't get the second one but I think it's the first one.Mrs C. wrote:sub - SIDE -ence
Sub -si -dence
It subsides.
It has subsidence.
Bit like my house which is falling apart. Big cracks in the roof. Not good.
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