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‘What did you learn at school today?’, queries the interested parent on the child’s return at teatime. ‘Oh, nothing much’, responds the long-suffering child who faces this question each evening, ‘we learned another irregular French verb, the characteristics of glaciated mountains in geography, and Boyle’s law in physics.’
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