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Nate Branscom

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Feb 1, 2006, 5:34:45 AM2/1/06
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If an octogenarian is 80 - 89, and septuagenarian is 70 - 79, then what
is the term for someone 20 - 29?

I was thinking vigintigenarian, but that's not it.

-- Nate

Stephen Calder

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Feb 1, 2006, 6:36:53 AM2/1/06
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This article from Wikipedia suggests the word should be digenerian:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deci-

But alas digenarian is not a word. We'll have to coin it. Or call them
post-adolescents.

Interesting that the words septuagenerian and octogenerian are derived
from the words for seven and eight respectively, and NOT from those for
seventy and eighty.


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Stephen
Lennox Head, Australia

Nate Branscom

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Feb 1, 2006, 6:48:07 AM2/1/06
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Stephen Calder wrote:
> Nate Branscom wrote:
> > If an octogenarian is 80 - 89, and septuagenarian is 70 - 79, then what
> > is the term for someone 20 - 29?
> >
> > I was thinking vigintigenarian, but that's not it.
> >

> Interesting that the words septuagenerian and octogenerian are derived
> from the words for seven and eight respectively, and NOT from those for
> seventy and eighty.

Yes, but doesn't the "-genarian" part refer to the "-ginto" in Latin?
I could be wrong. Really, I don't know.

-- Nate

Stephen Calder

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Feb 1, 2006, 6:57:01 AM2/1/06
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Nate Branscom wrote:

On looking further into it, looks like you're right.

Don't know why digenarian isn't a word.

Nate Branscom

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Feb 1, 2006, 7:12:51 AM2/1/06
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Of course, I meant "-ginta". Anyway, in my looking around Google, I've
seen that "vicenarian" has been used several damn times. Once (well,
now twice) here in AUE, though no dictionary has it, AFAIK.
Personally, I like "vicenarian" and will put it to use.

-- Nate

Don Phillipson

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Feb 1, 2006, 8:41:58 AM2/1/06
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> >>Nate Branscom wrote:
> >>
> >>>If an octogenarian is 80 - 89, and septuagenarian is 70 - 79, then what
> >>>is the term for someone 20 - 29?
> >>>
> >>>I was thinking vigintigenarian, but that's not it.

Young adult.

"Stephen Calder" <cal...@in.com.au> wrote in message
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> Don't know why digenarian isn't a word.

Perhaps because it is not really needed.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


PR

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Feb 1, 2006, 11:48:47 AM2/1/06
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Tweenagers?

Jeffrey Turner

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Feb 1, 2006, 2:41:35 PM2/1/06
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Looks to me like someone whose religious tenets cousel vice.

--Jeff

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"A nation that continues year after year to
spend more money on military defense than on
programs of social uplift is approaching
spiritual death." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jeffrey Turner

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Feb 1, 2006, 6:04:42 PM2/1/06
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Nate Branscom wrote:

Looks to me like someone whose religious tenets cousel vice.

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