Aidan Kehoe wrote:
[...] I have confirmed that two of my sprogs, now wrapping up their
thirties, are not familiar with "papoose". For another thread, note that >> > they are also not familiar with "a month of Sundays".
I suppose from your absence of clarification of where you are, that you’re in
the US? Though “sprog” is used more this side of the Atlantic.
While Paul Juhl lived, he began writing in dk.kultur.sprog (sprog=
language), and in one of his first messages he wrote a little joke about >"sprog". He had to explain the word which I didn't know then. He learned >british English in school, but I doubt that he knew "sprog" then. He
spent his adult life (14+) in Canada.
At the University of Natal in the 1960s new mail students were called
sprogs, and new female students were called sprigs.
On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 11:28:10 +0200, Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> wrote:
Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> [...] I have confirmed that two of my sprogs, now wrapping up their
> thirties, are not familiar with "papoose". For another thread, note that
> they are also not familiar with "a month of Sundays".
I suppose from your absence of clarification of where you are, that you’re in
the US? Though “sprog” is used more this side of the Atlantic.
While Paul Juhl lived, he began writing in dk.kultur.sprog (sprog=
language), and in one of his first messages he wrote a little joke about
"sprog". He had to explain the word which I didn't know then. He learned
british English in school, but I doubt that he knew "sprog" then. He
spent his adult life (14+) in Canada.
At the University of Natal in the 1960s new mail students were called
sprogs, and new female students were called sprigs.
I vaguely recall that "sprog" was also used to refer to a kind of
sailing vessel.
In my student days (Melbourne University, Victoria) the first-year
students were freshers and freshettes. The plural for both sexes was frosh.
The culture was such that the second-year students felt themselves to be
very mature, and superior to the raw beginners.
On 08/09/24 13:44, Steve Hayes wrote:
At the University of Natal in the 1960s new mail students were called sprogs, and new female students were called sprigs.
In my student days (Melbourne University, Victoria) the first-year
students were freshers and freshettes. The plural for both sexes was frosh.
The culture was such that the second-year students felt themselves to be
very mature, and superior to the raw beginners.
On 08/09/24 13:44, Steve Hayes wrote:
At the University of Natal in the 1960s new mail students were called
sprogs, and new female students were called sprigs.
In my student days (Melbourne University, Victoria) the first-year
students were freshers and freshettes. The plural for both sexes was frosh.
The culture was such that the second-year students felt themselves to be
very mature, and superior to the raw beginners.
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