I went to Scotland on an exchange and they called their first year students "freshers. Is this just political correctness or are they saying that the women can be fresh too?
2006-06-23 07:18:43 · 12 answers · asked by Cheshire Cat 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Y!A added that second question mark without my consent. I really do practice proper punctuation!
2006-06-23 07:20:24 · update #1
Now Reaper, I would have thought you would have graduated a *long* time ago! LOL. Oh, no, wait... Hmm... What class do you teach? Chemistry?? No wonder I smell that sulfur and brimstone...
2006-06-23 11:47:18 · update #2
That's very true rossj12003. Here in the US, "smoking a fag" sounds violent, homophobic, and illegal.
2006-07-01 03:27:26 · update #3
LMAO! They even automatically delete the word here! What a trip!
2006-07-01 03:28:18 · update #4
Fresher sounds stupid. I prefer Freshman. And as for being PC, screw it, it's been taken to stupid extreme's like the group who wants Webster's to change manhole cover to personhole cover
2006-06-23 07:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by Joker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word "fresher" is used in some science fiction as a term for a "rest room" (specificly Modesette) So I would have to vote against it as a term for a person
2006-06-23 07:22:27 · answer #2 · answered by Scott H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always wondered why not simplify and call it first year. Fresher, I guess is really more gender friendly. I really kind of like "Freshy", but that's too informal. Principal at assembly: "I would like to thank the president of the Freshy class"...nah. I guess they are Freshmen for that reason.
2006-06-23 14:08:19 · answer #3 · answered by Sassy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freshman. Fresher sounds like "rasher" which in Scotland/England reminds me of a sausage or a slice of bacon.
2006-06-23 08:53:30 · answer #4 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-15 04:20:47 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freshman.
2006-06-29 07:43:00 · answer #6 · answered by weatherkari 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different saying mean different things in England than they do here.
Some of them can be a little embarrassing.
2006-06-30 13:42:09 · answer #7 · answered by rossj12003 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer Freshmen on wheat toast.
2006-06-23 07:21:05 · answer #8 · answered by Zippy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have a lot of slang terms...i guess it depends on where ur at. here, in america, we call them frosh or freshmen. so...ya it can go either way
2006-06-23 07:21:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would go for "fresher" eventhough it may sound like a flasher:)
2006-07-02 05:14:53 · answer #10 · answered by Walter L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋