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blab school
A blab school or ABC school or Old-time School was a type of children's primary school in North America, outdated and obsolete since the 20th century. The school children recited ''(blabbed)'' their lessons out loud separately or in chorus with others as a method of learning.
== Etymology and word origin ==
Blab is the shortened form of the word "blabber," meaning to talk much without making sense. From Old English comes the word ''muðettan'', meaning "to blab," which was to speak from the mouth. Middle English had the noun ''blabbe,'' "one who does not control his tongue."〔
A blab school was where the school children repeated back their teacher's oral lesson at the top of their voices. The school children vocalized out their lesson in "Chinese fashion" as harmonized voices in unison. In more elegant terms, instead of saying they were ''blab'' schools they were referred to as ''vocal'' schools.
The neighbors of such a children's school of the 19th century would hear all the noise coming from the school of the children reciting the teacher's lesson aloud, and then dubbed the schools "blab" schools since it sounded like "blab-blab-blab."
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