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

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:17:38 -0400 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> Adrian Morgan wrote:
> > > Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
> >
> > Interestingly, at Adelaide University they do use the term
> 'freshie'
> Interesting.  Note, also, that it's *always* freshman, never PC-ized
> to
> *freshperson.  I find that interesting.  Why is it that
> "chairperson"
> exists, but not *"freshperson" or *"baseperson"?
>
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I seem to remember that at Stuyvasent highschool in NYC they supposedly
use "freshperson".
In my highschool we just used "freshie", and i still use it a lot in
college.
There's also the abberant plural "freshmans" used by a certain
non-English-L1-speaker here.


-Stephen (Steg)
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