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 Ar an seachtú lá de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Bertel Lund Hansen: 

 > 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.

There’s a very entertaining Reddit user who uses “Poem_for_your_Sprog” as a
nick.

https://old.reddit.com/user/Poem_for_your_Sprog

He or she comes up with filthy, relevant rhymes very quickly after someone else
posts. Most of them are not appropriate for anyone’s sprog.

-- 
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)