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Childs vs Children - What's the difference?

childs | children |

As a proper noun childs

is .

As a noun children is

.

childs

English

Noun

(head)
  • * 1970 , Freda Utley, Odyssey of a Liberal: Memoirs , page 103:
  • I remember one amusing episode: in a conversation with an engineer when responding to the usual Japanese enquiry in making social talk, "How many childs have you?"
  • * 1979 , Spit in the Ocean , Volume 1, Issues 5-6, page 106:
  • "It is as they say;" he clucks; "these childs are smoke the evil dope and the old ways of behave are forget.
  • * 2003 , Richard Matheson, Duel: Terror Stories by Richard Matheson , page 172:
  • I can have many childs . Ten at a time at once.
  • * 2005 , Stephan Olariu, ?Albert Y. Zomaya, Handbook of Bioinspired Algorithms and Applications , page 6-402:
  • Thus, the initial random vectors are all normalized and the childs are also normalized to unit vectors after any crossover or mutation operation.
  • * 2006 , Holman Day, The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot , page 192:
  • It is poison that has kill our little Rosemarie – and all her life ahead! The doctor say so – and he say I cannot understand about the rich man, why he do it. But I understand that the childs are dying.
  • * 2010 , Jack Dazey, Dying For Her Love , page 114:
  • We are not confused children and if we were then let these childs be free, for life is short and every bit of a smile extends life one more day.

    Usage notes

    Primarily used in dialogue, to indicate that a foreign or illiterate speaker has a poor grasp of the English language.

    Synonyms

    * children (standard)

    children

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Noun

    (head)
  • .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 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. […]’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}