OK, another up-to-the-minute British popcult question: Do any of the
yoof remember ancient coinage like shillings, farthings, crowns and guineas?
What a lot of footnoting we have to look forward to.
Not to mention all them cannon to the left and right of us.
Mark
At 02:00 PM 3/18/2007, Geraldine Monk wrote:
>Subject: Re: Tennyson's Charge -- British school days
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>>I suppose one of the reasons Crimea is still so vivid is because of
>>the journalism which could report back - and keeps reporting back.
>>And then the books written from first hand like George Loy Smith's
>>one on the Charge.
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>But it's still a specialist interest wouldn't you say Edmund - it's
>not something that's 'out there' in the psyche of today's yoof? Or
>any other age group. I doubt if many have even heard of it.
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>G
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