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Not that this matters a whole lot, but where did two of us get the idea that
"graduate college" was British usage?
>From: dabro <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: usage question
>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 <
>[log in to unmask] > wrote:From: Edmond Wright [mailto:
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>16:40:03 +0000Subject: Re: usage question>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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