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Bookmark or Share- vocabulary - What is the term for a child that's in between toddler and ...'Child' for me covers infant to teenager but feels best for the range toddler to pre-teen (if you see a sixth month old I would tend to call them a baby not a child, even though 'child' is not wrong; words can have overlapping semantic contexts).
- Pluralization rule for "five-year-old children", "20 pound note", "10 ...a two year old whisky *The whisky was two year old (wrong). The term two years old is used as a predicative only adjective phrase: *a two years old whisky (wrong) The whisky was two years old. Similarly the following measure phrases only have attributive uses, where the noun part of the phrase has no plural inflection: twenty pound; ten mile ...
- Is it formal or informal to use y/o as an abbreviation of "years old"?Personally, I find it difficult to answer whether years old is formal and y/o is informal. I hope this response is not seen as a definitive answer, but rather one that encourages us to consider how terms such as "formal/informal" may in fact be forcing us to engage with false dichotomies.
- Is there a word for children under 10 years old?I am looking for the counterpart of the term "teenager" for those who are younger than 10 years old. A single word that means something like "elementary school student" is helpful as well.
- Why is it 'three score years and ten' almost half the time and not ...The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. The much older Latin Vulgate has the "70 years" as: "septuaginta anni", where the first word is clearly "70" without the use of "score".
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