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Old 04-07-2008, 10:05   #74
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Re: Don't bug me teacher, eating me breakfast.

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Originally Posted by Eric View Post
Indeed ... the closest thing I can remember to a teacher having trouble with English was R. P. Owen, and he was Welsh ...

...but he had a fine Welsh singing voice. I know because he sat behind me in church.

Incidentally his wife taught me when I was six, as well as also being my Sunday scholl teacher. As fine a Christian woman as her husband, and a socialist to boot. I had many interesting conversations with her about politics as an adult.

When I lived in London I was also in a quiz team with their granddaughter, a doctor, who is a fine a young woman as her grandmother.
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