Stinging Remark Dig for Victory Off the Rails Driven to Distraction Go Compare His '*' Hearse

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Following our schoolroom howlers this week, a teacher with 40 years experience recalls giving her pupils an extract from Cliff Hanley's Dancing in the Streets to read in which the English teacher is described as "waspish".

The teacher asked her pupils to (a) describe what kind of person Hanley's teacher was and b) describe how you could tell that from the passage. However, the teacher was more than a little aback when she started marking the papers and saw that one pupil had answered (a) he was rubbish and (b) because he waspish.

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Stinging Remark Dig for Victory Off the Rails Driven to Distraction Go Compare His '*' Hearse

We've all been glued to the wonderful story of the rescue of the Chilean miners and we th...

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