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From: Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk>
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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.

-- 
Bertel
Kolt, Denmark