Minor gripe
Jun. 8th, 2009 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jsburbidgeI was hearing on the CBC today about people graduating from high school. Uh-uh. To graduate means to be admitted to a degree (== a status: one "is a bachelor of arts", not "has a bachelor of arts"), i.e a gradus (thus: "Admitto te ad gradum".) A high school confers no degree. One matriculates from high school, since what one receives is a diploma, not a degree. (When I was young we did not have "high school graduation"; we had "commencement exercises".)
