Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Steve Hayes Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: Sprog Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 01:42:18 +0200 Organization: Khanya Publications Lines: 24 Message-ID: <8gdsdjh14crsftpigk6a9qcft8pk524eea@4ax.com> References: <87a5gsplpx.fsf@parhasard.net> <87a5gjlvet.fsf@parhasard.net> <897qdjh8dvjbkbv7sllgbt3l01njvfqh3n@4ax.com> Reply-To: hayesstw@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 01:41:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f61e9f09d017397e02cd81600fe7bb84"; logging-data="2226256"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18SL8izDW4In+NkibkokbPqgONxA+yTnTo=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:5mZm/8E1VohPEPhpv9Dokro+zXQ= X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 Bytes: 1981 On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 21:59:38 +1000, Peter Moylan 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. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk