The odd one out

Jay Peatea

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23 Oct 03

Jay Peatea

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23 Oct 03

Harry Stotle, teacher of classics was meeting his new class for their first latin lesson.
The students in the class were called Isabelle, Vanessa, Xavier, Lyndsay, James, Colin, David & Melissa
After they had introduced themselves, Harry said that James was the odd one out. why ?

iamatiger

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23 Oct 03

Originally posted by Jay Peatea
Harry Stotle, teacher of classics was meeting his new class for their first latin lesson.
The students in the class were called Isabelle, Vanessa, Xavier, Lyndsay, James, Colin, David & Melissa
After they had introduced themselves, Harry said that James was the odd one out. why ?

My wife Steph reckons it's because James is the only 1 syllable name.

MstofDestruction

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24 Oct 03

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Amiaca

James is the odd one out because he is an American and the others are not.?

PS: Just a guess

Jay Peatea

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24 Oct 03

Good tries but both wrong.

kaushpaul

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24 Oct 03

Melissa...all the other names have a word formed by consecutive letters within the name...i.e., JAMes, lindSAY, dAVID, etc

Jay Peatea

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25 Oct 03

Originally posted by kaushpaul
Melissa...all the other names have a word formed by consecutive letters within the name...i.e., JAMes, lindSAY, dAVID, etc

nope keep trying

~~skeeter~~

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25 Oct 03

Originally posted by Jay Peatea
Harry Stotle, teacher of classics was meeting his new class for their first latin lesson.
The students in the class were called Isabelle, Vanessa, Xavier, Lyndsay, James, Colin, David & Melissa
After they had introduced themselves, Harry said that James was the odd one out. why ?

Hmmmm.......teacher of classics... is that James has the only English/Royal house/French house etc and all the other names are those of commoners?

TheMaster37

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25 Oct 03

Originally posted by Jay Peatea
Harry Stotle, teacher of classics was meeting his new class for their first latin lesson.
The students in the class were called Isabelle, Vanessa, Xavier, Lyndsay, James, Colin, David & Melissa
After they had introduced themselves, Harry said that James was the odd one out. why ?

It's been 6 years since i had Latin...but i don't recall Latin using the letter J...so that's maybe why James is the odd one out...

Jay Peatea

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25 Oct 03

Originally posted by TheMaster37
It's been 6 years since i had Latin...but i don't recall Latin using the letter J...so that's maybe why James is the odd one out...

Well done again you are one smart cookie, but note you'll never beat the doctor............. (cue Dr Who sound track)😀

Nuathala

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26 Oct 03

Originally posted by Jay Peatea
Harry Stotle, teacher of classics was meeting his new class for their first latin lesson.
The students in the class were called Isabelle, Vanessa, Xavier, Lyndsay, James, Colin, David & Melissa
After they had introduced themselves, Harry said that James was the odd one out. why ?

All of their names start with a letter that stands for a number in Latin!
I=1, V=5, X=10, L=50, C=100, D=500, M=1000. J is not a number as far as I know.

Nice one! 🙂

Nuathala.