Breaktime - The job stops here - Overheard

... in a Year 8 history lesson
25th February 2011, 12:00am
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Teacher: So we have four types of settlements: towns, villages, cities and hamlets.

Pupil: Isn’t a hamlet that thing like a pancake made of eggs?

Teacher: No, that’s an omelette.

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