Sujet : Re: Sprog
De : hayesstw (at) *nospam* telkomsa.net (Steve Hayes)
Groupes : sci.lang alt.usage.englishDate : 09. Sep 2024, 00:42:18
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On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 21:59:38 +1000, Peter Moylan <
peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:
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.
That too.
The culture was such that the second-year students felt themselves to be
very mature, and superior to the raw beginners.
Which is presumably why in the US they are called wise morons.
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