XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 21:59:38 +1000   
   Peter Moylan  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.   
   >   
   > The culture was such that the second-year students felt themselves to be   
   > very mature, and superior to the raw beginners.   
   >   
   Feh, bunch of sophomores.   
      
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