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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's certainly true that an author (in Britain, at least) 50 years ago could assume a reasonable grasp of Latin on the part of his or her readership, because it was a subject taught in every British school. I'd guess it was probably around the early 1970s that it stopped being universally taught.
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I think you are overstating the amount of Latin teaching, Harry. From what I remember it was usually only taught in Grammar Schools. I certainly never had the option to learn latin and I was in the A stream and was in school from 1953 to 1964.