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Adult children? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "Adult children" comes from "adult children of alcoholics", but now has broader reference to adults who were abused emotionally, physically or sexually in childhood
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?
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
Trying to understand the nuances between ox, steer and bullock American English: an adult animal of the cattle family, esp a male that has had its sexual organs removed (here "castrated" is qualified with "especially") Further, Wikipedia describes an ox as: An ox (plural oxen), also known as a bullock in Australia and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal or riding animal
Can Mr, Mrs, etc. be used with a first name? Sometimes an adult (for example some teachers) will introduce themselves as Mr Ms last name instead, which is also fine and wouldn't usually raise eyebrows It's also not uncommon for adults to use this construction between themselves
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
Is the word boy racist in the following situation? In it, a lone Eastern Asian adult male of average height asks a very tall white man where the washroom is The white man replies: Over there For boys He's a native English speaker The tone's normal They're strangers to each other They're in North America I wonder if the word “boy” has any racist meaning in it