On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 21:50:12 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"Bruce" wrote in message ...
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>On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 20:53:59 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>>"Bruce" wrote in message
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>>On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 14:20:36 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>>>"Bruce" wrote in message
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>>>Are you saying that's not true?
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>>> That word was never used by our Nuns!
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>>Nor by mine
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>> Ahaa! you had them too?
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>They were sort of on the way out at my school, but I still had a nun
>(a soeur actually) in full outfit in the last year of primary school.
>She was nice. I liked her. Did you have them all through school?
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> Not all, but mostly Ours were all Sisters of Charity. Yours?

I don't know. A French order, which is why they were called Soeur
Thingie, rather than Sister Thingie.