BBC News: Pope Francis tries to build bridges in sceptical Turkey
Do you see what they did, there?...
Pontiff, from pontifex, from pons facere, the Latin for to make a bridge.
[My old Latin teacher, Spiny Norman, would be so proud of me.]
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BBC News: Pope Francis tries to build bridges in sceptical Turkey
Do you see what they did, there?...
Pontiff, from pontifex, from pons facere, the Latin for to make a bridge.
[My old Latin teacher, Spiny Norman, would be so proud of me.]
Now, just a jolly moment. If Spiny Norman was your old Latin teacher, that presumably means we went to the same school, and the world has shrunk again.
That dodgy place between Beresford and Kingsmead?
That's right. Beati mundo corde.
You should be careful if you intend to obfuscate the school in that way - a very cursory Google search for the motto indicates that you quite clearly went to the Trinity College School, Ontario 😉
Ah, but Trinity College School didn't have a Spiny Norman!
Dinsdale...
There are lots of schools with that motto, but only one with a Spiny Norman, or a Rock or a Bat teaching Latin. The roads I mentioned gave enough of a clue. I think a beer some time is called for, though the details might take some sorting out. In the meantime, Laete Saturnalia, as he was wont to say at this time of year.
Spiny, Rock, Bat, and Larry Leather (although he retired the year after I joined the school—can't say I blame him).