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Nursery

Would a nursery be a place for old people or babies?
  

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[/nq] Either. A nursery is a place where health or growth is fostered or nursed. This includes young veggies.

  • [/nq] Either.
  • A nursery is a place where health or growth is fostered or nursed.
  • This includes young veggies.
  • Common usage has plants or infant children housed in nurseries.
  • tommy
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[nq:1]Would a nursery be a place for old people or babies?[/nq]
Either. A nursery is a place where health or growth is fostered or nursed. This includes young veggies. Common usage has plants or infant children housed in nurseries.
tommy
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[nq:1]Would a nursery be a place for old people or babies?[/nq]
Nursery babies
Nursing home old people
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[nq:1]Would a nursery be a place for old people or babies?[/nq]
More probably babies or infants. The word was
adopted when babies needed the constant attention
of nurses; at that date the old did not get constant attention, except from their families or in hospital. Nowadays at least some old people might well
dislike the word nursery for an old people's hostel.

Don Philli
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[nq:1]Would a nursery be a place for old people or babies?[/nq]
A nursery is for children, not just babies. We put old people in "nursing homes".

David
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Does exactly what it says on the tin.
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[nq:2]Would a nursery be a place for old people or babies?[/nq]
[nq:1]A nursery is for children, not just babies. We put old people in "nursing homes".[/nq]
That's the word I was looking for.
Do all old people in the US go to nursing homes when they get old? Watched a few films involved nursing homes. All are sad and sick and awful treatment from the staff. I can't imagine American fam
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[nq:1]Would a nursery be a place for old people or babies?[/nq]
Babies, human and vegetable.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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[nq:2]A nursery is for children, not just babies. We put old people in "nursing homes".[/nq]
[nq:1]That's the word I was looking for. Do all old people in the US go to nursing homes when they ... treatment from the staff. I can't imagine American families put old people in nursing homes. To me that's morally wrong.[/nq]
Don't believe everything you see in films. Do you think that cars real
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Thus spake Donna Richoux:
[nq:2]That's the word I was looking for. Do all old ... old people in nursing homes. To me that's morally wrong.[/nq]
[nq:1]Don't believe everything you see in films. Do you think that cars really explode into fireballs when they run into poles? Do you think that nearly every wedding ceremony in the US falls apart at the altar? Hollywood has its own rules.[/nq]
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[nq:2]A nursery is for children, not just babies. We put old people in "nursing homes".[/nq]
[nq:1]That's the word I was looking for. Do all old people in the US go to nursing homes when they ... treatment from the staff. I can't imagine American families put old people in nursing homes. To me that's morally wrong.[/nq]
I don't know about the US, But here "nursing home" does not have the b
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[nq:2]That's the word I was looking for. Do all old ... old people in nursing homes. To me that's morally wrong.[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't know about the US, But here "nursing home" does not have the bad connotations you seem to addociate with it.[/nq]
Nursing homes in the US are like restaurants: there are some very, very bad ones, and there are some very, very good ones. Like restaurants, the d

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