The French Baccalaureate is now over, and I have decided to publish here my archive of teacher and student howlers from the past two years. I didn't go into the pain of translating all of them (besides, some would not be as funny) and decided instead to give my English readers only those from English teachers (I followed the OIB, so I spent eight hours per week studying literature and history in English). My comments (if any) follow in italics. They are given in no particular order.

I would like to make it clear that I do not feel that the lessons I got in these two years were of poor quality; quite the contrary. Everybody makes mistakes, and I am sure that the teachers who said those would be (will be?) the first to laugh about them. This being said, here they are.

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