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People saying "He's 28 years of old".
Jefferson
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By mistake. As Ian Payne just did (on LBC) when talking about Wayne Rooney.
It always seems odd to me how often this mistake is made.
A bloke in the audience of Question Time last week said "I'm 82 years of old". Mind you he's probably got more reason than most to get it wrong.
It always seems odd to me how often this mistake is made.
A bloke in the audience of Question Time last week said "I'm 82 years of old". Mind you he's probably got more reason than most to get it wrong.
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If I did, I'd assume they just got their words mixed up between years old and years of age.
For goodness' sake ... the guy got tongue-tied when the camera was on him and it was clear that he immediately realised he'd mixed up "82 years old" and "82 years of age". How is someone getting their words mixed up in any way "odd"?
It's odd how many "professional TV talkers" do it. I did kinda excuse the old chap on QT.
Who do you mean by "he"?
Possibly - bit like "a women" instead of "a woman".
Stupid thread says more about the op than anyone else. It's bloody obvious how this could happen.
Of course. It's not deliberate at all. It just seems so natural that 28 years of
Is followed by "age".
For an explanation of why this makes perfect sense within the context of the story, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_World
It just seems natural to use a lower case "i" in "is" when it isn't preceded by a full stop, but we all make mistakes.
I still don't see how it's odd to make an occasional mistake, and until today I'd never noticed anyone saying "years of old".
What are you trying to say? Bearing in mind you were wrongly thinking I was asking how this could happen. I WASN'T.
My tablet did that automatically.
I've not heard that said, ever.
Me neither. i presume it was just a slip of the tongue in both cases.
Yep. Never.
when knights were bold... http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=3&t=145