30-10-2021, 09:57 PM
My Latin master was the school's headmaster and I failed it at "O" level. Seeing him some time later I apologised for failing, to which his reply was " I knew you would" ! However I've always been grateful for the grounding and it has often helped me in grammar and syntax over the years. I even conversed once in very primitive pigeon Latin with a chap in Poland, neither of us being able to speak the other's language!