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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Ofstead?
Failed to understand "Ofstead [sic] report... We had to plant the seed of her cheating in order to get the results that she has..."
1) What is ofstead? It seems to be a misspelling but what is the original word?
2) "plant the seed of her cheating"? Does it refer to "(we had to secretly) make troubles for her so that she might seem to be a fraud"?
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576961/Birmingham-school-dubbed-Trojan-Horse-Islamist-radicals-holds-assemblies-promoting-notorious-Al-Qaeda-recruitment-agent.html
1) What is ofstead? It seems to be a misspelling but what is the original word?
2) "plant the seed of her cheating"? Does it refer to "(we had to secretly) make troubles for her so that she might seem to be a fraud"?
Context:
More:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576961/Birmingham-school-dubbed-Trojan-Horse-Islamist-radicals-holds-assemblies-promoting-notorious-Al-Qaeda-recruitment-agent.html
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NL8881) What is ofstead?Ofstead is the surname of a person in the story.
[sic] is added to published text to show that the error was directly quoted from the original source.
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