A Word in Your Ear: Lost language of schools
Ink wells and blotting paper, milk monitors and chalk: the classrooms have reopened this week, but the language of school has changed and many words that were almost synonymous with the classroom have disappeared from everyday use.
A Word in Your Ear · Australian Broadcasting Corporation
February 10, 202221m 34s
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Show Notes
Ink wells and blotting paper, milk monitors and chalk: the classrooms have reopened this week, but the language of school has changed and many words that were almost synonymous with the classroom have disappeared from everyday use.
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