A Latin lesson at Hendon County School comes back to me from about 1946. We were learning how to tell the date in Latin from a dear old soul called Miss Weavers. This involved, I recall, use of the Accusative Plural of the name of the month, and dear Miss W for some reason pitched on May, which in Latin is Maia, and whose Accusative Plural is Maias -- whose pronunciation, in Standard English anyhow, is identical to "my arse". We all found it difficult to keep a straight face as she gave us several examples of dates in Latin, all involving her walking around the classroom, repeatedly exclaiming "my arse!"