"windowsill" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to the shelf-like surface that is found at the bottom of a window. For example, "I placed the vase on the windowsill so that the sun could hit it directly."
Maybe all is fine at 32 pupils, but what about at 34, or 38, or 42? Which is not a hypothetical example, by the way, but the actual size of my own primary school class in the early 90s (complete with windowsill desks).
If you're a child in a class of 42, crammed into a space made to accommodate 30, with a "desk" that is actually a windowsill and you're sitting so far from the teacher that it's difficult to hear her speak, then it matters quite a lot too.
They've got a gas burner, a few pots and a couple of crude but deceptively sharp knives; they use a windowsill as a chopping board.
Every child in the land who is using a windowsill as a desk can attest to that.
WHEN he was six weeks old, Paul Bowles was undressed by his father and placed naked in a wicker cot on the third-storey windowsill of a brownstone in Queens during a snowstorm.
Mr Barker does not name it, but he nonetheless conveys his sense of the same thing at the fancy grocer's, selling Japanese wakame and cranberry pressé, or the executive houses with stone bed-warmers on the windowsill and Range Rovers in the drive.
Small flowering plants that produce edible fruit can be grown on a windowsill.
Generally, they prefer a cool location, but some small-leaved or variegated varieties do well on the windowsill.
In Bristol, England, in 2006 he depicted a naked man clinging to a windowsill on the side of a public family-planning clinic; local residents voted to keep the mural.
A couple of weeks ago, some friends who have taken on an allotment in nearby Tolworth in Surrey, proudly showed me their French beans that had germinated on the windowsill.
"Carlisle then went to the living room and started pacing back and forth, saying, 'I'm sorry.' Carlisle sat on the windowsill and said he was going to jump.
