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Re:Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died by billfruit on Saturday July 20, 2019 @02:03AM (#20484405)
May be it is an Americanism, never heard of the word used in that manner before(as a non American).
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Re:Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died by Reebz on Monday July 22, 2019 @10:31AM (#20498279)
In Commonwealth countries at least, some synonyms for recitation are “tutorial” or “study group”.
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Re:Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died by Gene_Parmesan on Saturday July 20, 2019 @04:32AM (#20484742)
I think it is rather an American tradition, and it's not not even present at every university here (or at least by that name), but it's also not recent. I've found references going at least to the 1910s.
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