English Vocabulary

Prom

Gwendy

User since 2008
Posts: 253

29 Dec. 2010

What kind of party is it ?
Thanks for your ansmers.

and... happy new year everybody.
Vict.

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AhQ ['a: kiu]
User since 2006
Posts: 2715
30 Dec. 2010

May I say Vic for Victorine?
I'd like to say prom for promotion and for promenade as well. The word prom is somehow multi-meaning (a word of my own copied from multi-tasking).

Wealthy people leaving high-shool in USA and Canada, college in UK, use to landmark their leaving at the end of last year by having a prom. It's a party starting like a "promenade", it is the ceremonious opening of a ball by a formal march of the guests dressed in tuxedos and high-end attire. Students think that way they are entering the high-class society. It's sometimes true.

My mother who is British told me she had never taken part to such snobbish event.
May I say Vic for Victorine? I'd like to say prom for promotion and for promenade as well. The word prom is somehow multi-meaning (a word of my own copied from multi-tasking). Wealthy people leaving high-shool in USA and Canada, college in UK, use to landmark their leaving at the end of last year by having a prom. It's a party starting like a "promenade", it is the ceremonious opening of a ball by a formal march of the guests dressed in tuxedos and high-end attire. Students think that way they are entering the high-class society. It's sometimes true. My mother who is British told me she had never taken part to such snobbish event.
Gwendy
User since 2008
Posts: 253
30 Dec. 2010

Thanks a lot Sandy for cleaaring up the meaning of "Prom".

Vic is OK for me.
Victorine.
Thanks a lot Sandy for cleaaring up the meaning of "Prom". Vic is OK for me. Victorine.

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