‘Darling,’ I asked, ‘In your day did they call them specialities or specialties?’
‘Darling,’ I asked, ‘In your day did they call them specialities or specialties?’ ‘Do you know,’ replied my husband, ‘I can’t remember.’ So that’s his last useful function gone.
I was asking because, in a discussion of hospital posts for young doctors, the news kept referring to specialties, and I itched for specialities.
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