Baby Name

[maggiebee]

Just read that BoJo's baby boy is to be called Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson.

[vulcan42]

Diddly shouldn't have used Sprog as that is plural, she should have used sproget. :o)

[Mozz71]

Sproglet maybe?

[vulcan42]

My dictionary only gives sproget but sproglet sounds good.

[Mozz71]

Do you remember The Clangers? They had some little orange critters called "froglets". I think i was thinking of them when I posted lol

[steg]

when I was younger sprog was probably one of the most common names used by my friends for their kids, my friends in Ireland usually refer to their kids as cubs

[diddlydo]

Sprog is singular in Chambers and the other words mentioned above don't exist.

[naomi24]

Sprog isn’t a word I’d choose to describe any baby but words alone are never really an issue in my opinion. Frankly I think objecting to certain words per se all gets a bit snowflaky and daft. However, words do count when they’re used, in context and tone, to denigrate. Had diddly said, ‘How lovely. A new little sprog’, the chances are no one would have turned a hair - but she didn’t. She used the word to emphasise her vitriol towards the Prime Minister - and that’s just plain nasty.