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Almost full marks to St Monica's, a Roman Catholic High School, in Prestwich, Manchester, which posted the Rosh Hashanah greeting below on their fence for their Jewish neighbours.

The words run in the right order from right to left. However, the school managed to get the letters of each word back to front. The message should read Shanah Tovah Um'vorechet, "A Good and Blessed Year".

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