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When I was in school we were reading 'The Crucible'. One lesson we all took turns to read out loud. One of my peers read the word 'whore' as 'war'. Some of the
by junto 13y ago
When I was in school we were reading 'The Crucible'. One lesson we all took turns to read out loud. One of my peers read the word 'whore' as 'war'. Some of the boys sniggered.
The teacher then needed to describe what a whore was.
I think she handled it quite well in hindsight considering she had a bunch if immature teenagers to deal with.
- 72deluxe 13y agoWe had a teacher named Mrs Hoare, pronounced "whore". She was lovely. She eventually left to be replaced by Mrs Robinson, so handing in homework involved "Here's to you Mrs Robinson!" but nobody got as far as asking "Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson?" chortle chortle guffaw teenage idiots
- Mindless2112 13y agoI've often imagined what an awkward look I would get mentioning Hoare logic [1] to someone who hadn't seen it written. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare_logic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare_logic
- unhammer 13y agoShakespeare used the phrase "from hour to hour" as a joke to mean "from whore to whore". Doesn't quite work unless you hear it in the Original Pronunciation: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=6892 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=6892 (Also, "war" would rhyme with "far")