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Old 10-10-2006, 07:39 PM   #7
johnfowles
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Originally posted by Peter Bro10:
Thanks for the edification, John!
Actually I like the sound of that word,it takes me back a few years to my schooldays when as a necessity for possible entry to Oxford or Cambridge one had to do well at Latin: I eschewed both and attended London University, or rather the so-called "University of South Ken"(sington) The Imperial College right next to the Royal Albert Hall where some years later I was able to see Gord in concert.
Now where was I oh yes at school,yes I enjoyed studying Latin , we had a wonderfully amusing teacher,I recall that my very favourite Latin verb was aedifico, aedificare, aedificavi, aedificatum meaning "build" and my most resounding Latin word was aedificabant, the past tense "they were building"
so endeth today's Language lesson Boys and Girls
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