In what order would the following institutions (?) be occupied in the course of someone’s life?
What is the likelihood that those terms will be found on wiktionary?
home nursery, unlikely, but home schooling likely. nursery school likely but nursing school unlikely. nursing home likely.
Yay! All my predictions are correct. And I predict ‘nursery’ will be defined.
The order would be: home nursery, nursery school, home school, nursing school, nursing home.
Kids are going to be sent to nursery school and then home schooled, perhaps after a bad experience in the nursery school, rather than the other way around.
They aren’t home schooled and then sent to nursery school to complete or round out their education.
The original question was from Irene Schoenberg’s Talk about Trivia and was about nursery school, nursing school and nursing home.
Do the other version of this question, NurseQuestion
Those two senses of suckle: “to nurse a baby at the breast” and “to nurse from the breast”, means nurse is an autoantonym, like ‘cleave’? Or does it mean it’s an ergative (labile) verb?
"The baby nursed from the breast."
"The mother nursed the baby at the breast"
"The ship sailed from the harbor."
"The pilot sailed the ship from the harbor."
I guess it’s ergative (labile), rather than an antonym, because the meanings are the same, whereas in cleave the meanings are quite opposite.
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