Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[LMcD]

I suppose 'inequitable' is too long a word (and harder to pronounce and spell...) but since it could be used as a blanket term to cover all the criticisms of the exam results fudge that shouldn't be a reason not to use it.

How about 'iniquitous'?

[Serial_Apologist]

How about 'iniquitous'?

It's not quite the same as inequitable, though, since it doesn't have the same sense of incomparability to it.

[kernelbogey]

Whereas equanimitous - a word difficult to pronounce which I often use, and which, to me, means feeling even-minded about things that others may get upset over - apparently doesn't exist as a word, according to whichever dictionary one looks in!

But equanimous is in OED: Even-tempered; not easily elated or depressed.

[oddoneout]

How about 'iniquitous'?

That's the next stage on I think, or at least that's how I see it. There will be some who see the exams fiasco as iniquitous but the main problem was that it was unfair and advantaged some groups to the detriment of/more than others.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/iniquitous

[gurnemanz]

I taught A Level for many years. I did try to be realistic in predicting grades which were nearly always arrived at in consultation with a colleague with whom the teaching had been shared.

I can imagine a few teachers might now be wishing that this time they had erred a bit more on the side of generosity.

Obviously, too many variables for predicting ever to be an exact science. I remember attending an A level parents' evening in respect of our daughter. Her history essays were a cornucopia of great ideas but not always strong on structure or coherence. I tentatively asked the teacher what he predicted. The answer came: Anything from A to E. .... I think she got a C.

[LHC]

I taught A Level for many years. I did try to be realistic in predicting grades which were nearly always arrived at in consultation with a colleague with whom the teaching had been shared.

I can imagine a few teachers might now be wishing that this time they had erred a bit more on the side of generosity.

Obviously, too many variables for predicting ever to be an exact science. I remember attending an A level parents' evening in respect of our daughter. Her history essays were a cornucopia of great ideas but not always strong on structure or coherence. I tentatively asked the teacher what he predicted. The answer came: Anything from A to E. .... I think she got a C.

As this year’s grades will now be 12% higher than last year’s, I think teachers were quite generous enough with their gradings.

[gurnemanz]

As this year’s grades will now be 12% higher than last year’s, I think teachers were quite generous enough with their gradings.

I was thinking about those teachers who had been realistic, rigorous or even deliberately harsh in their predictions, not knowing that circumstances would lead to their grade being set in stone, and who now realise that they might have sold their students short.

[Pulcinella]

I was thinking about those teachers who had been realistic, rigorous or even deliberately harsh in their predictions, not knowing that circumstances would lead to their grade being set in stone, and who now realise that they might have sold their students short.

Indeed, which is why I mentioned elsewhere that '(previous) school performance' should have included accuracy of previous predictions against actual grade.

[ahinton]

I've always slightly preferred "okay" since the capitalised OK implies an acronym, but Wikpedia's Oll Korrect seems a bit of a stretch in modern times.

Why not "Au Quai"?...

[LezLee]

At my girls' grammar school we were told never to use OK, Ok or okay. All Americanisms were frowned upon. This was also one of my dad's tenets!

[gurnemanz]

At my girls' grammar school we were told never to use OK, Ok or okay. All Americanisms were frowned upon. This was also one of my dad's tenets!

Our O Level English teacher banned "get" and all contractions - isn't, won't etc. (etc. was of course also banned).

[Serial_Apologist]

Our O Level English teacher banned "get" and all contractions - isn't, won't etc. (etc. was of course also banned).

"Get", "got", "nice" and "things" were all banned words in our English essays. You had to write "obtain" or "acquire", "pleasant"; I can't now remember what was the right substitute for "things". I remember that now!

[Pulcinella]

"Get", "got", "nice" and "things" were all banned words in our English essays. You had to write "obtain" or "acquire", "pleasant"; I can't now remember what was the right substitute for "things". I remember that now!

What on earth is the problem with 'get/got'?
Once you've gotten the hang of it, it's a very useful strong verb (hence the gotten form): you should politely tell people to get off their high horses.
That would be one way to get back at them.

[Serial_Apologist]

What on earth is the problem with 'get/got'?
Once you've gotten the hang of it, it's a very useful strong verb (hence the gotten form): you should politely tell people to get off their high horses.
That would be one way to get back at them.

At least I've outlived all my teachers!

[teamsaint]

What on earth is the problem with 'get/got'?
Once you've gotten the hang of it, it's a very useful strong verb (hence the gotten form): you should politely tell people to get off their high horses.
That would be one way to get back at them.

Got it in one.