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@olatz thank you so much for sharing this with us. I read it a few times (one, because your English is impeccable and I’m so impressed by how you can express yourself and two, because your story about what happened at uni resonates so much with me and I feel fury towards people with this attitude, especially from educators who should know better!) I agree that if this were to happen to you now, you wouldn’t stand for it.
I’m also fascinated by what you told us about that period of history. I admit, I don’t know so much about it, but it reminds me of what happened in Scotland (a lot longer ago!) when they banned Gaelic and also wearing tartan and such things.
Poor Emma! Unfortunately, I guess your summation is fairly accurate: People who complain about accents will probably also complain about the amount of foreigners in their cities or villages What a world we live in!
ps.
> the verb research: to research ‘something’. We don’t need a preposition after the verb: I had spent so many hours researching about the book > I had spent so many hours researching the book
You can use it as a noun as well and in this case, we can use a preposition:
I had spent so many hours doing research about/on/into the book
> hang – hung
Hung is the past tense of to hang when it means “to suspend or be suspended.”
Hanged is the past tense of to hang when it means “to kill someone by tying a rope attached from above and removing the support from beneath.”
…. there was an unbelievably rude man who rang her and hung up on her while she tried to help him.
