Re: CHAT: Education words in various English dialects // was"Mister"

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:50:42 -0600 Eric Christopherson
<raccoon@...> writes:
> There's also "frosh," which to the best of my knowledge is actually
> derived
> somehow from either German Frosch or Yiddish frosh, meaning frog,
> possibly
> helped by its resemblance to "fresh."
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I always thought that "frosh" was a combination of "fresh[man]" and
"soph[more]".

> > -Stephen (Steg)
> >  "salaam / `aleinu v`al kol ha`olam / salaam, salaam..."
>
> Cool sig.
>
> --
> Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo
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Thanks!
It's the last line of a very short song, whose previous lines go:
"`od yavo shalom `aleinu (x3)  /  v`al kulam"
What's your sig?  Your name in Proto-Indo-European?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "if Gore invented the internet, how come every site begins with WWW?"
                    ~ (supposedly) George W. Bush