- expressions - If an adult gets kidnapped, would it still be considered . . .
If an adult gets kidnapped, would it still be considered "kid"napping? [duplicate] Ask Question Asked 11 years, 7 months ago Modified 11 years, 7 months ago
- Adult swim出过哪些作品？ - 知乎
adult swim的 informercials 系列挺好看的，是一系列很有意思的广告类短片，里面我非常喜欢的是 mulchtown，你可以在YouTube或者百度直接搜到。
- etymology - What is the origin of the term ‘blue movie’? - English . . .
There's also the term "blue laws", for laws restricting activities on the Sabbath It also has an unknown origin, although some sites guess that they were printed on blue paper (Snopes says they can't find any evidence of this)
- Was man a gender-neutral word in common usage at some point?
Etymonline comments: Specific sense of "adult male of the human race" (distinguished from a woman or boy) is by late Old English (c 1000); implying that "man" was used in a purely non-gendered way before then
- Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children
Is it normal to refer to adult-age sons and daughters of someone as children? A native speaker of Arabic learning English has said that in Arabic, the word for sons and daughters is "أولاد" (awlaa
- meaning - Are adult and adulterate cognates? - English Language . . .
16 The word adult appear to have derived from the Latin term adultus, meaning grown up, mature, adult, ripe Adulterate (and its cognate adultery) is reported to derive from the Latin adulterare - to falsify, corrupt Are the meanings and derivation of adult and adulterate, directly related, or is this just a coincidence of spelling?
- possessives - adults’ English teacher or adult’s English teacher . . .
Distinguish your audience in a prepositional phrase "I am an English teacher for adult learners" or "I am an English teacher for adults " If it is important you say teacher, this breaks up the information in a way that makes adults more proximal to teacher than English, and uses for to disambiguate the purpose
- What is the word for an adult who is not mature?
What term can be used for an adult, especially a man, who is in his forties and still behaves like a teenager, shunning responsibilities typical of mature people, preferring to enjoy himself?
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