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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
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.
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Thank you for correcting me! It's certainly true to say, though, that far more people in the 1950s and 1960s had an understanding of Latin than do today. I wasn't taught it in school, but learnt both Latin and Greek with the OU.