Saturday 17 December 2022

At yesterday’s Fellows’ Christmas Dinner, L. remembered his very first event at Clare (in the late 80s) when all the menus were in Latin. It wasn’t a problem for the most part except one: there was obviously no word for coffee (which is served at the end, with petit fours), and the Classics fellow translated it from modern English as ”hot black potion,” which makes perfect sense, of course.

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