At school, Collegers of course were one thing: tugs qua tugs board in College ex officio; Oppidans' houses' names were relics of old housemasters, locations, and so on, and simply grew by habit (although of course the actual house names are rarely used unofficially, being referred to by the name or initials of the current housemaster).
(At one's prepper, house names were of course imposed, although given the situation, they were more or less notional in any event. But I was, perhaps ambiguously, speaking of my school rather than my prepper, above, after lamentables' example.)
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Not precisely.
Date: 2012-01-24 06:16 pm (UTC)(At one's prepper, house names were of course imposed, although given the situation, they were more or less notional in any event. But I was, perhaps ambiguously, speaking of my school rather than my prepper, above, after lamentables' example.)