1 ° n ? ° f ] the bri S ht est examples of schoolboy howlers was chronicled during the interrogation of an upper standard in a Gisborne school recently. The ouestioner, one of the Education Board’s insnectors, asked the pupils to write down the femnine of a series of nouns which he would give them. Among the nouns was buck, and one bright youn<r scholar without the slightest hesitation shee” nS ltS feminine tbe ''vord “buck-
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Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 79
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