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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 11:28:10 +0200, Bertel Lund Hansen   
    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.   
      
   I vaguely recall that "sprog" was also used to refer to a kind of   
   sailing vessel.   
      
      
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