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- Why is it three score years and ten almost half the time and not . . .
The counting in twenties is a Celtic practice that influenced English for a time, and also French (quatre vingt dix = four twenties and ten = 90) Putting "years" in the middle is also part of the Celtic idiom In modern Welsh, "30 years" is "deng mlynedd ar hugain", literally "ten years on twenty" The image shows Google Translate
- Which is it: 1½ years old or 1½ year old? [duplicate]
It would come much more naturally to a native speaker to say not "That man is a 50-year-old" [note also the hyphenation here] but "That is a 50-year-old man"; similarly, not "That kid is a one-and-a-half-year-old today" [a construction I have never heard anyone use when referring to half years as part of someone's age], but "That is a one-and-a-half-year-old kid" (omitting the 'today'), or
- r 28dayslater - Reddit
So, like everyone else, I'm very excited for 28 Years Later, it's a movie I wanted to see happen for more than a decade Anyway, I understand that many don't think Weeks was as good as Days, but personally I think it was still a great movie I was looking at the reports regarding Years and "it won't connect with 28 Weeks Later" is what was said
- If annual means one year, is there any word for two,three, four. . year
2 years Biennial 3 years Triennial 4 years Quadrennial 5 years Quinquennial 6 years Sexennial 7 years
- grammaticality - Four years are vs. four years is - English . . .
Four years is a long time to spend away from family and friends Here is a related excerpt from a vetted grammar source, the 2002 CGEL, page 504: 18 3 Further overrides and alternations (a) Measure phrases We have already noted that plural measure nominals can be respecified as singular for the purposes of agreement and selection within the NP
- Correct use of circa - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Asked 13 years, 10 months ago Modified 2 years, 1 month ago Viewed 271k times 17 I understand
- My Experience of Semen Retention So Far : r Semenretention - Reddit
Hi ya'll Been retaining for 7 years now My avg streaks in the last 2 years are 4- 6 months Hoping to get a year this time I'm 6 months in Here are some of my experiences and lessons learned -Keeping track of time can be a double edged sword ( no pun intended ) I keep a general idea of time, a goal to set I also keep track of time in
- I slept with my brother on new years eve. : r confession - Reddit
We were drinking with our mutual friends at a new years party Everyone was kind of off doing their own thing My brother was sitting on a bed and I say down next to him I (innocently) had my hand on his knew thigh as we were talking and before I knew it, we were groping each other and kissing like crazy We were both really drunk as I said
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