Seasonal Word Abuse

[debka_notion]

TOmorrow is the day when we get tons upon tons of prefrosh. And I'm seeing interesting things done with the word, which is an odd enough one already (and I'm procrastinating)... SO, it started out as pre-freshman. The alternate flural for freshmen is, apparently frosh. So the plural of prefreshman is prefrosh. That said, presumably the sigular should be prefr esh, which I've heard, but which sounds weird. So now prefrosh is both plural and singular. ANd now I'm hearing prefroshes, which just seems redundant.

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[tirerim.livejournal.com]

And then, of course, there is the ever-popular 'froshlings', though I've never heard 'prefroshlings'. But we don't call them prefrosh, we just call them specs, even if they've already decided.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

OH yes, I remember visiting there and being called both a spec and a speckie. THe only thing I've heard ending with a -ling at Brandeis is BORGling, I think.