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From: Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net>
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Subject: Re: Sprog
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On 08/09/2024 at 04:44, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 11:28:10 +0200, Bertel Lund Hansen
> <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> At the University of Natal in the 1960s new mail students were called
> sprogs, and new female students were called sprigs.

What were the male students called?

> 
> I vaguely recall that "sprog" was also used to refer to a kind of
> sailing vessel.
> 
> 



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Chris Elvidge, England
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