With my memory slowly returning...I felt compelled to add the school song we sang after the meal. I'm putting it down EXACTLY as it appeared in the programme...so I hope you can see why we all collapsed into giggles half way through:
Floreat Bancroftia,
Floreamus pueri,
Vivat et memoria,
Fundatoris nostril
Nobis in aeternum,
Magni sint honores,
Floreat Bancroftia,
Floreant rectores
The printer doesn't appear to be a latin scholar, but clearly has a nose for business!.
And the photo is simply to show what happens when you let someone who can't speak a language produce something in that language...
I did latin A level but don't remember the word nostril?
ReplyDeleteWell you sniffed that one out pretty quickly!
ReplyDeleteI'll keep the sign translation a secret for a little longer..
Oh bless! That's lovely! Will remember that one...
ReplyDeleteI shall sing it everytime...and have encouraged the boy to do likewise.
ReplyDeleteTranslation of the Welsh sign is:
"I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."