In P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang a boy asks lead character Alan Duckworth, who had just been caned, whether he got a Corporal or a Sergeant, presumably meaning two strokes or three. Duckworth replies Sergeant as he had been given three strokes. I don’t know if those terms were ever used by real schoolboys though, I certainly never heard them.

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