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single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I have three age groups that I want to distinguish in my research project They are as follows: 18-45 years - I have called this group young adults 46-65 years - I have called this group adults 66
Since when did kidnapping come to include adults too? As per this link, the word 'kidnap' originated to denote nabbing away of a child When and how did kidnap come to denote nabbing of adults? Update: Just found a link to a 1650 book that mentions
Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children As AndrewGrimm notes, "children" has two very distinct meanings: It can refer to people who are not yet adults, or it can refer to people who are the offspring of a specified person or people It is normal and common to refer to adults as "children" when expressing the relationship Saying that so-and-so are the "children of" someone is another way of saying the "sons and or daughters of" For
possessives - adults’ English teacher or adult’s English teacher . . . I am an adults' English teacher suggests that you teach multiple adults On the other hand, these sentences are both awkward Possessives tend to work less well when long phrases are involved In this case, it can become less clear what the possessive is determining: is the subject you teach "adult ('s s') English" or "English"?
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?
Does Adults aged 19 to 64 and over convey any extra meaning? Or (going on from Stuart's and misterben's incisive suggestions) possibly a savvy editor saw 'Adults aged 19 to 64' and essentially extended the upper bound without drawing too much attention to the fact that the editing was fairly radical But yes, the tautology does appear odd