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After the Russian pogroms, there was an influx of Jews to our area – the East End of London. There were a lot of children who had to go to school. Some were big girls, twelve or thirteen, and you couldn't put them in the infants' school, so a lot of them came to our school. The older girls like myself were given a class, just to teach them to speak English. I remember one girl – when I told her to say ‘and’ she couldn't. She said ‘aernd’ and she said ‘royce’ for ‘rose’. This used to annoy me, and I did bully the poor girl a bit. One day, in the playground, she was standing in a corner, crying. I went over to her, and I said in Yiddish, ‘Why are you crying?’ and she said, in Yiddish, ‘Everyone's laughing at me. You laugh at me. I can't say like you say the word in English. I can't say “rose” – I say “royce”.’ I said, ‘But you've just said “rose”!’ After that I became very friendly with her.