Not that this matters a whole lot, but where did two of us get the idea that 
"graduate college" was British usage?


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>Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:53:00 -0500
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>  Thank you Edmond for setting me straight . I've always thought that 
>"graduate college" was British usage and "graduate from" American. It's 
>only lately that I've been hearing "graduate high school" in American 
>English. As you correctly note,  "graduate" is an IV. That's why Larry is 
>uncomfortable trying to form a passive sentence with it. David BrownESL/EFL 
>teacherLong Beach, CAUSA  --- On Sat 12/16, Edmond Wright &lt; 
>[log in to unmask] &gt; wrote:From: Edmond Wright [mailto: 
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>16:40:03 +0000Subject: Re: usage question&gt;Geoff,As an Englishman I judge 
>that we English would never say 'graduate highschool', (1) for 'to 
>graduate' is an intransitive verb in English English,and (2) it is only 
>used of graduating from the UNIVERSITY. We do not callgaining one's 'GCSE' 
>(General Certificate of Education -- at 16) or'A-Level' (Advanced level 
>GCSE -- at 18) 'graduating' at all. Mostsecondary schools (only a
>minority of which are called 'high schools') holdwhat is called a 'Speech 
>Day' later the following year, a day on which avisiting dignitary formally 
>presents the GCSE and A-Level certificates andany school prizes that are 
>offered to the students of these two differentages, who have left school at 
>different times. Thus Speech Days have neverbeen referred to as performing 
>'graduation'.EdmondDr. Edmond Wright3 Boathouse CourtTrafalgar 
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