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2:19pm on Wednesday, 1st November, 2023:
Anecdote
When I was 13-14, we had an English teacher at school called Mr Merry. He'd give us work to do but take an age to get round to marking it.
At the start of the academic year, he told us we had to write in one colour and underline the headings in another. After waiting weeks for my work to get marked, I rather took against him. When I finished my first exercise book, which used the approved write-in-blue, underline-in-red approach, I started my second one in black and underlined in green (twice). Colours other than red, blue and black weren't common for ballpoints back then, so even green was unusual.
I did this for a whole exercise book and was half-way through another one before he asked for work to be handed in. He was furious that I'd not used red and blue, but I pointed out that if he'd asked for the books more often then he'd have been able to stop me earlier. Also, I wasn't breaking any rules.
He told me I had to use red and blue from then on, so I did.
Next time he asked for the exercise books to mark, he got a book and a half in red writing with blue underlining.
Hey, an English teacher should be more careful with their language.
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