From: Torsten
Message: 68452
Date: 2012-01-31
>Only on the net. I googled it (6.940.000 hits). I seems you're right; of native English speaking countries it's mostly British, Australian and NZ. So it's most likely a direct loan from German.
> At 12:50:01 PM on Monday, January 30, 2012, Torsten wrote:
>
> > I found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusker#Etymology
> > by accident recently. Shows the strange twists and turns
> > of loans. Also strengthened my suspicion that some words
> > and expressions arrived from Danish in American English
> > with computer scientists in the 1970-80's ('at uni' "in my
> > university")
>
> Where have you found 'at uni' in normal U.S. usage? It's a
> distinctively British (and international) usage.