Childer vs Children - What's the difference?
childer | children |
(Ireland, obsolete elsewhere)
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As nouns the difference between childer and children
is that childer is (ireland|obsolete elsewhere) while children is .childer
English
Noun
(head)Derived terms
* ChildermasReferences
* Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Accessed 23 Feb. 2006. * The O'Byrne Files, "Dublin Slang Dictionary" Accessed 23 Feb. 2006.
children
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(head)citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}