Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Great Plum wrote:

Mrs C. wrote:Scone?

Either/ neither?

Subsidence?

Scone as in Skon not Scoane

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?

It stands for Deputy Grecians...

I guess it i the Deps...

Katharine wrote:

Great Plum wrote:

Mrs C. wrote:Scone?

Either/ neither?

Subsidence?

Scone as in Skon not Scoane

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?

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.

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.

What did you call people in the years above G.E., then?

Richard Ruck wrote:

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.

What did you call people in the years above G.E., then?

memory gone.
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.

You lot are being weird. Ignore the yanks.

Scone is one I've never known the answer to as my parents would not agree. As a result I've always tried to avoid the word, so as not to cause offence.

Mrs C. wrote:Scone?

Either/ neither?

Subsidence?

What ways are there of pronouncing subsidence?

sub - SIDE -ence
Sub -si -dence

Mrs C. wrote:sub - SIDE -ence
Sub -si -dence

I still don't get the second one but I think it's the first one.

It subsides.
It has subsidence.

Bit like my house which is falling apart. Big cracks in the roof. Not good.

Ruthie-Baby wrote:

Mrs C. wrote:sub - SIDE -ence
Sub -si -dence

I still don't get the second one but I think it's the first one.

It subsides.
It has subsidence.

Bit like my house which is falling apart. Big cracks in the roof. Not good.

Hope you don't own it.

AKAP wrote:

Richard Ruck wrote:

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.

What did you call people in the years above G.E., then?

memory gone.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I vaguely remember my father and/or brother using the term parting grecian.

AKAP wrote:

Ruthie-Baby wrote:

Mrs C. wrote:sub - SIDE -ence
Sub -si -dence

I still don't get the second one but I think it's the first one.

It subsides.
It has subsidence.

Bit like my house which is falling apart. Big cracks in the roof. Not good.

Hope you don't own it.

No but it's lovely. Apart from falling down. Will be sad to move out.