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Subject: Re: homophones & kids ages
From: pfgar...@gmail.com (Pat Garvey)
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by: Pat Garvey - Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:36 UTC

Wow! Your daughter is now 32 and a HALF!

On Friday, May 22, 1992 at 11:46:21 AM UTC-4, David Karr wrote:
> In article <97...@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> im...@cs.strath.ac.uk (Iain McCord) writes:
> >ka...@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes:
> >: The fact that there is an "eldest" child is supposed to rule out
> ^^^^^^^^
> >: (1,6,6), so the ages are 2, 2, and 9.
> >
> >Unless the census taker asked between the second eldest turning 6 and the
> >second eldest turning 7.
> Sigh. The puzzle has logical holes you could drive a truck through, one
> of which you've just pointed out. How about the fact that very young
> children's ages are often given in months or by half years? (MY elder
> daughter used to correct people who guessed her age: "I NOT two! I
> two an a HALF!") Ergo my use of the word "supposed."

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Re: homophones & kids ages	Pat Garvey