Orthography is correct spelling but it is a word that is not used much any more - but very few people i know could tell you that a dipthong is two vowells joined to make one syllable... Diacrital marks were no longer taught though, in pre-college/university classes after the Second World War. A Caret is a mark placed under a line to show an ommission - like colo_r - i don't have one on my keyboard, it is an upside down V - this word is missing a 'U'. It is still used when correcting in printing. Way back in the dark ages when i was at school, there were no calculators [unless you knew how to use an abacus], no computers, no TV and manual typewriters! The last belonged in the Black Museum as antiques even then! But i learnt to strip one down to it's basic components in later years, to clean and repair it. Reading was one of the few enjoyable things open to you and i was and still am, an avid bookworm. You lost me with the math; i'm crap there and a lot of the geography was USA but on the whole i managed better that i thought i would! Do remember that you would not have sat all those exams parts in one day, even they staggered them! No child could have gone 5 hours without going to the loo and you were not allowed to leave the classroom during an exam! It is true that a lot of learning was by memory and it's just as well i had a good one, i passed most of my exams that way as i was a lousy swotter. :D
Way back in the dark ages when i was at school, there were no calculators [unless you knew how to use an abacus], no computers, no TV and manual typewriters! The last belonged in the Black Museum as antiques even then! But i learnt to strip one down to it's basic components in later years, to clean and repair it.
Reading was one of the few enjoyable things open to you and i was and still am, an avid bookworm.
You lost me with the math; i'm crap there and a lot of the geography was USA but on the whole i managed better that i thought i would!
Do remember that you would not have sat all those exams parts in one day, even they staggered them! No child could have gone 5 hours without going to the loo and you were not allowed to leave the classroom during an exam!
It is true that a lot of learning was by memory and it's just as well i had a good one, i passed most of my exams that way as i was a lousy swotter. :D
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