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English teacher didn't know what a funambulist does! gawd elp us!

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Peter Pedant

wop boppa loo mop alop bom bom
( tutti frooti)

yeah that is what I fort the headline was - good huh ?

and so to continue
funiculi funicula song - Marriage of Figaro (*)

"Jamme, jamme 'ncoppa, jamme jà
Funiculì, funiculà!" - I fort there was -

Figaro qui! - Figaro qua!
figaro li - figaro la ! ( and figaro whistles during IT)
but there isnt - dare is in the viddie

but there is the word funicular
"The term funicular derives from the Latin word funiculus, the diminutive of funis, meaning 'rope'."
which presumably is the intentional distractor.
and the carriages were pulled by ropes up the hill ?

just saying on this morning
one has to fill one' time
where Brum Stabs - Manchester arena, govt breaking intl law
and a case of tranverse myelitis in the covid trial have all been studiously ignored on AB

and the only alternative is to read the dross others have written to pass the time before coffee

(*) who he marries den? chorus ( ha pun intended) a fousand AB jokers!
sozza farzand

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As others have pointed out, I am not surprised that the word wasn't known, I'm surprised that she didn't work it out. Not always easy but this one was.

Bobbisox1

Just WTH is PP on??

Morning Tora

Peter Pedant

// funambulist question by ‘ambu’ in the word.//
yeah foo like 'ambulance'
day take so long to arrive at a scene ( Manchester arena remember) you have to WALK to hospital haw haw haw! (*)

solvitur ambulando - - - scrowdens solution to Zeno's paradox
( it is solved by walking - to you proles)

kids taken by muslim taxi drivers but we haven't got to that bit in the inquiry

Hey the decorated policelady was warned that an interloper ( salman doo dah) was interloping - and said "I dont remember that at all" - too bad lady it is on viddie

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I was talking about the woman, who went home with a bag of sand. Not the £125k bloke.

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sorry he won £250,000

bobby: "Not sure ILM, I gave up and went to bed, the woman with the big bandana got on my nerves with her prattling before answering , haha" - on the occasion she didn't waffle and blurted it out she lost £31k!

Bobbisox1

Love 'bag of sand' haha

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I'd have expected an English teacher to know about Latin roots etc - eg Hippo = Horse, Pot=river, cera=Horn, camp=bell, can=dog etc etc so Hippopotamus = Big river horse, I could go on....

dannyk13

TTT, have all English teachers studied Latin ? I doubt it.

Cloverjo

Probably not Danny, but you’d expect them to know the Latin roots of English words.

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I hope so, It's a big part of a degree in English.

jno

hippopotamos is a Greek word, not Latin.

As any fule kno

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greek/latin jno, is a root of lot of our words.

ichkeria

I’d expect an English teacher to know SOMNAMBULIST and AMBULATORY and to have some clue that there is a “walking” connection based on the Latin root, even if they don’t know any Latin.
Maybe I’m expecting too much.

jno

ABer says Hippo and Pot are Latin! gawd elp us!

dannyk13

Lol jno

ichkeria

Not knowing that cano- is Latin and not Greek however is just a cyno- the times.

Coat-grabbing time I think :-)

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have a day off jno.