On Sunday 04 March 2012 07:11:17 pm Lisi wrote: > When I started at Cambridge in 1961 we had a freshers' fair to introduce us > to the available societies. I have just Googled to see whether new > students still do, and they do. > > So perhaps the term is being imported from England rather than America. ;-)
I would second that--as an American, I've always used "Freshman" as opposed to "fresher". Maybe fresher is starting to be used in America, but I haven't noticed it (but I'm not on college campuses very often any more). Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
