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From: Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
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Subject: Re: Sprog
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 01:42:18 +0200
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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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