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I'm three score and thirteen years old, when I was young (in the UK) some still used the count of "score" - mainly for farm produce. The discussion about "score" and where the noun goes is really quite irrelevant as the root of the phrase comes from the Hebrew, changed to "score" thanks to a loose translation of the bible into English.
It's the same reason we don't say "Two hundreds dollars". The number, whether twenty or eleven thousand three hundred, refers to the years, not to the 'groups of years'. Nobody would say *four tens years; you can say four decades, precisely because a decade is ten years. But a score is just twenty and cannot (in this sense) be pluralized.
1 score = 20 years 1 score = 20 years. How does a dilation of a figure with a scale factor 0.5 compare to a dilation of the figure worth a scale factor 2?
How old is threescore? Three score means thrice twenty; that would be sixty. Threescore is 60 years old. In biblical terms, threescore is a reference to 60 years. A Score is twenty (20) so ...
87 years. True, In old English " score " was a word used to describe the number " 20 ". So what Abraham Lincoln really meant was " 4 periods of twenty years, plus 7 years ago " (87 years ago ...
A score is twenty years. So four score and seven is (4 X 20) + 7 years or 87 years. However, the usual quote is three score and ten years (70 years) which represented the life expectancy in those ...
20 yearsa score is about 20 years.not About exactly 20The question should really be: How many years are there in 1 score years?Because score is just of size 20.Ie. "Four score Horses" == "80 Horses"
Four scores and seven years: 4 scores x 20 years/score + 7 yrs.= 80 yrs + 7 yrs. = 87 years 1863 - 87 = 1776 which was the year the then United States declared independence on July 4. What the ...
What does 'four score and seven years' mean? Four score and seven years = 87 years. A "score" is 20. Abraham Lincoln used this phrase as a fancy way of referring to the founding of the country (in ...
A score is 20 therefore 4 score is 4 x 20 =80 + 10 = 90. A "score" of years is 20 years, so four score = 4X20=80+5=85. "Fourscore and five" means 85. In this phrasing, "fourscore" refers to four ...