Busy, busy week ahead. The eldest is going to high school this year, so we have a parents assembly tonight and he has three full taster days, so the routine of the week has been thrown into chaos.

[–] PragmaticOne@mastodonapp.uk 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

@sideone @rubikfrog

‘High school’? Since when did we become Americanised? Surely you mean seniors? 😄

[–] sideone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

West midlands people call it High School, and did twenty years ago

[–] eggest@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not where I grew up and went to secondary school 20 years ago...

[–] rubikfrog 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

TIL it's High School in Scotland and not in [edit: some parts of] England!

[–] Jon-H558@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I went to (town) high school in south Midlands

[–] juniper 2 points 1 year ago

I've always known it as secondary school

[–] rubikfrog 1 points 1 year ago

So I ended up down a bit of a rabbit hole... Strangely the council here in Edinburgh refer to the schools as "secondary schools", but the official names of all the schools is "... High School". Go figure. My school in Fife's official name ended in "High School" too.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My friends.

Maybe this is our chance to get rid of the tiresome Reddit trope of trying to catch people out in so-called "Americanisms" (that usually just ended up being different British dialects anyway).

Maybe this is our chance to be better.

[–] sideone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed. Also, the "Where are you from" thread highlighted that we have subscribers (Lemmys / Lemmies?) from all over the world, we should welcome everyone even if they spell something differently to you.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmings! 😄

[–] sideone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, of course!