Soundbites

15th April 2005, 1:00am

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Soundbites

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A Year 10 careers lesson.

Teacher: “In which job would you hear ‘open wide, please’?”

Pupil: “Midwife.”

DEREK RAISHBROOK, COVENTRY

In last year’s GCSE geography exam, one candidate was describing standards of living and wanted to use the word “sewers”. The following were his attempts to get the correct spelling:

suyars

sewyars

suwers

sooars

suars

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