The Feminine Gender One of the brightest examples of schoolboy howlers was chronicled during the interrogation of an upper standard in a Gisborne school recently. The interrogator, one of the Education Board’s inspectors, asked the pupils to write down the feminine of a series of nouns which he uowld give them. Among the nouns was “buck,’’ and one bright young scholar without the slightest hesitation wrote as its feminine the word “buckshee. ”
Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure—For Coughs and Colds, never fails.*
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 109, 11 May 1931, Page 8
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