In a message dated 9/27/00 3:25:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, nickgillespie@hotmail.com writes: << but the best thing about the language is the constant shortning of words. any normal word that used to long has some shortned version or an acronym made of it. ie. the word for where class takes place is "HS." i'm not even sure of what it stands for but everyone knows what you mean when you say it, so... hey, why not? >> HS is short for High School here in the states. High school consists of: Freshman year (or "9th grade", ages 14-15-ish) Sophomore (or "10th grade", ages 5-16ish) Junior ("11th grade", 16-17ish) Senior ("12th grade" 17-18ish) There is also Junior High school (never shortened to JH, just Jr. High) which is 7th and 8th grade -- sometimes called Middle School when it adds in 6th graders. Bring a #2 pencil, there will be a quiz tomorrow..... I had a friend from Ireland who never could understand the different grades -- like when I said, "Well, when I was in 8th grade...". He'd just stop me and say, "Wait, how old were you then? Eighth grade means nothing to me." *Colleen* +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+