To: Still Thinking
The Brits consider an eight year old an "infant"?This sounds like old fashioned legal language. No one I know in Britain would ever call a 4 or 8 year old an infant, they would call them a child or a kid.
22 posted on
09/30/2005 1:48:16 PM PDT by
David Hunter
(http://www.freebritannia.com/ - the real home of British Libertarian Conservatism)
To: David Hunter
No one I know in Britain would ever call a 4 or 8 year old an infant, they would call them a child or a kid. The term *Lad* is still heard here and there, most often from one's old Em and Da. And from RSMs to junior Lieutenants, of course!
24 posted on
09/30/2005 2:01:40 PM PDT by
archy
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