[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Graduating soon

Laura Ingalls Huntley huntleyl at mssm.org
Mon May 12 02:37:12 UTC 2003


Dumbledad:
> I don't think this confusion has crept in yet but it's worth bearing
> in mind that the word "school" in the UK usually equates to the
> words "high school" (or earlier schooling) in the USA, and the
> word "school" in the USA equates to "college" or "university" in the
> UK. At least that's my experience.

Well, I'm from the US, and as far as I can tell, you can use "school" to
mean "high school/middle school/grammar school" *or*
"college/university"...usually it's pretty obvious from the context of the
sentence.

Laura






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