[Vocabulary] missing box

[atabitaraf]

In my class usually students leave their things, so I put them in this box or on a shelf, can I call them the missing box or the missing shelf? Or I'd better say missing things?

 

[bhaisahab]

The lost property shelf/box.

 

[lotus888]

"Lost and Found"


--lotus

 

[emsr2d2]

At my college, the shelf was based in the common room and was marked "The OOPS shelf". The suggestion is that someone who has lost something would think "Oops, I left my pen/book/bag behind". The word "whoops" is also used in this context.

 

[atabitaraf]

At my college, the shelf was based in the common room and was marked "The OOPS shelf". The suggestion is that someone who has lost something would think "Oops, I left my pen/book/bag behind". The word "whoops" is also used in this context.

Is it a formal way for putting it in class? Or it has a sense of humor?

 

[tedmc]

The items are not actually lost but have been forgotten and inadvertently left behind.

Can you call them 'left behind items'?

not a teacher

 

[emsr2d2]

Is it a formal way for putting it in class? Or it has a sense of humor?

It's not a formal name at all. It's a little bit amusing.

 

[emsr2d2]

The items are not actually lost but have been forgotten and inadvertently left behind.

Can you call them 'left behind items'?

not a teacher

That's not natural. Technically, you could argue that nothing which turns up in "Lost and Found" or "Lost property" might have been "lost". They have either been forgotten, left behind or dropped. We simply use the collective term "lost" for all those things in this context.