• smeg@feddit.uk
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    23 hours ago

    posh southern slang

    Worth putting the posh part in the first line too, definitely a very public school thing to call it soccer.

    And for any confused non-brits reading, “public” schools are private schools. We named them wrong for a joke.

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      2 hours ago

      Public schools may be private schools, but they ate the poshest and ponciest private schools, even if you have the money to afford them you can’t get in without the right connections.

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      17 hours ago

      “public” schools are private schools

      Despite having invented the English language, you Brits are really bad at it

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      23 hours ago

      lol that just sounds like capitalism in the US where “freedom to choose internet” bill is actually freedom for a private corporation to choose where they have monopolies and therefore they get to choose where they sell their internet

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        19 hours ago

        Ours used to make more sense

        A public school in England and Wales is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys. The schools are “public” from a historical schooling context in the sense of being open to pupils irrespective of locality, denomination or paternal trade or profession or family affiliation with governing or military service, and also not being run for the profit of a private owner.