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Originally Posted by hobnail
Or what about the different types of schools? In British books it sounds to me like what they call a public school (e.g. Eaton and Harrow; very upper crust) is what here in the US we'd call a private school.
What do they call what we call a public school; one that's free and paid for with taxes?
And then after finishing their public school and they go to Oxford or wherever, they don't study Cicero, they read Cicero. And studying the classics is a very worthy endeavor while here in the US we're busy getting ready for grubbing for money studying engineering, agriculture, etc.
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And they don't "study" (as we would in the US) - they "revise". In the US "revise" would be reworking an earlier version of something - like if you had written a paper and it needed updates.