in double French

[Michael Quinion]

Joel S. Berson wrote:

> Class double the length of the usual class?  (My guess.)  Or second year
> class?  Or an advanced class in which all conversation is to be in
> French?

Ah, yes, I remember it well. The dreaded daytime class schedule of my
English grammar-school youth, in which we traipsed from classroom to
laboratory to classroom every 40 minutes to meet yet another specialist
teacher on his home turf (single-sex school, no women anywhere apart from
the school nurse). The unhappiness was doubled when two successive periods
(classes) were put together with the same teacher to make a double period.
Double maths was torture for some, double chemistry or physics for others.
Oddly enough, I don't remember double French.

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