Thread: Spelling

[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">youve probably flattened a few pennies too.....</span>

Ahh, the days before railway lines were fenced off in NSW.

Ron

[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">youve probably flattened a few pennies too.....</span>

there must have been a trick to that--

never could keep my eye on it :roll:

Originally posted by one_iota
So mastering modified cursive (or in your case copper plate with quill and ink :wink: ) is no longer a measure of competancy in the modern world. A bit like typing and text messaging with spell checking software and knowing how to plug stuff in is now a measure.

Certainly we used pens and dipped them in inkwells. I currently use a fountain pen and have done for 40 years. My writing with a ballpoint is appalling.

BTW, when you broke the centres out of pen nibs, it left two sharp spikes, one each side. Thrown at the blackboard, they'd stick into it.

Ron

[quote=Pedro_The_Swift]

Originally Posted by DEFENDERZOOK

<span style="color:blue">youve probably flattened a few pennies too.....</span>

there must have been a trick to that--

never could keep my eye on it :roll:

<span style="color:blue">
you had to use a bit of blu-tac (smurf *****) on the back to hold it in place.....</span>

<span style="color:blue">or....you flattened a quid......













but only found a penny......</span>

Originally posted by p38arover+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(p38arover)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-one_iota
So mastering modified cursive (or in your case copper plate with quill and ink :wink: ) is no longer a measure of competancy in the modern world. A bit like typing and text messaging with spell checking software and knowing how to plug stuff in is now a measure.

Certainly we used pens and dipped them in inkwells. I currently use a fountain pen and have done for 40 years. My writing with a ballpoint is appalling.

BTW, when you broke the centres out of pen nibs, it left two sharp spikes, one each side. Thrown at the blackboard, they'd stick into it.
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Norman Bateman was the ink monitor at Belmore St Public school in Goulburn. The ink was mixed from powder and Norman's hands were stained blue. Desks with cast iron frames and flip up timber tops deeply engraved with signatures of previous pupils from the times when slates were used and dictation was droned.

Herr Bic was a subversive.

Originally posted by one_iota

Norman Bateman was the ink monitor at Belmore St Public school in Goulburn. The ink was mixed from powder and Norman's hands were stained blue. Desks with cast iron frames and flip up timber tops deeply engraved with signatures of previous pupils from the times when slates were used and dictation was droned.

Herr Bic was a subversive.

Oh, BTW, Bic (Marcel Bich) was French - so that would be M. Bich

Ron

I can remember the inkwells,,

the flip top desks

and norman bates( 8O )




but Belmore St School draws a blank,,,,