Re: Sprog

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.