Saturday, October 15, 2005

Exams: taking or writing?

Yesterday a colleague of mine laughed out loud when I mentioned that I was to write exams at the end of the month.

"Write an exam!" he scoffed. " You don't say 'write an exam', you say 'take an exam'."
"Huh?"
"You write the answers, sure, but you take the exam."

Really? Unless this is absolutely the only correct way to say it, I'm not sure I care.

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