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- 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
- 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
- Where in the U. S. do people change the stress of umbrella, adult and TV . . .
I think that I change the stress in "adult" depending on part of speech—it's always the second syllable for the noun (and verb), but often first syllable for the adjective
- 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?
- Is there a word to describe mature or adult plants?
I know that adult is most often used to describe a mature human-being, and that mature is a broader usage word, describing everything form animals to cheese Also that a young tree is a sapling is there an equivalent word for a mature plant, tree or shrubbery?
- Adjective for adult children - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In return the children have a {adjective for adult children} duty of care to their elderly parents in later years Obviously candidates like "infantile" or "juvenile" don't work as they exclude adult children
- 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
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