[BITList] Swearing ban at Bootles Hugh Baird College to prepare students for work - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo

[Michael Feltham]

Hugh,

Reminds me of when an Archbishop of Canterbury visited Oz many years ago - he remarked that the Aussies suffer from a lack of adjectives !

Mike
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On 13 Feb 2012, at 20:44, "HUGH" <chakdara at btinternet.com> wrote:

> There was never a swearing ban at any school or college I attended - people 
> just didn't swear while on the premises, certainly not out loud.  In 
> shipyards and other places men swore a lot, but never in public, or in the 
> hearing of a woman, or a man they didn't know.  My mother knew a few choice 
> words when provoked, but I never once heard my father swear at home. Of 
> course, preparation for work nowadays will be how to sit at a desk in an 
> open plan office full of people doing likewise and not swearing.
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> Hugh. 
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