Thu 30 Jul, 2015 06:22 am
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The lowering of the age of majority to eighteen and the sexual revolution of the 1960s changed everything, but that was after I attended Oxford.
AT THAT time, the physics course was arranged in a way that made it particularly easy to avoid work. I did one exam before I went up, then had three years at Oxford with just the final exam at the end.
@oristarA,
Yes. To university, since it's apparently a British text.
In England (not so in Scotland, in my experience) you are said to go "up" to university.
The "Oxbridge" universities are composed of many discrete and largely autonomous colleges.
@McTag,
I wonder whether Americans would understand it immediately.
@oristarA,
It's a very British idiom.
It is not used in Canada or the US.
Mainly Oxford or Cambridge; rather old-fashioned and upper-class.. When you go to college you "go up", and when you leave (permanently or temporarily) you "come down". If you get expelled for misconduct, you are "sent down".
@oristarA,
Read "Porterhouse Blue" for a (humorous) insight into the university colleges and their peculiarities.
@oristarA,
Yes, Oristar it refers to "I went to college".
@McTag,
McTag wrote:
Read "Porterhouse Blue" for a (humorous) insight into the university colleges and their peculiarities.
I searched wiki and found the introduction that said "Porterhouse Blue is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, first published in 1974."
It is rather old then. So I wonder whether there is somewhere online that offers a free PDF of it.
@McTag,
I found a small pile of Tom Sharpe's at a thrift store recently and have been using them as transit reading. Entertaining.
@McTag,
Looks good.
I'm reading the information there.
@oristarA,
Yes it is sound like a British English to me. According to the content its right to say "I went to college" or heading to college or off to college(uni in British)
"Uni" is just a lazy British kid's way of saying "university"; it isn't really a proper word.
@Tes yeux noirs,
I got used to this word till now lol
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