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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.
> 
> The culture was such that the second-year students felt themselves to be
> very mature, and superior to the raw beginners.
> 
Feh, bunch of sophomores.

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