[Grammar] Another word for Babysitter...

[coldplay258]

Is it correct to say "Child keeper" as babysitter too?

Thank you. Hope replies soon.

 

[Tdol]

I haven't come across it in BrE.

 

[SoothingDave]

I've heard "baby minder" on British TV shows. Babysittter is the word in AmE, even if the "baby" is 10 years old.

 

[coldplay258]

Thank you very much for you help.

 

[billmcd]

Is it correct to say "Child keeper" as babysitter too?

Thank you. Hope replies soon.

Not in AmE, but "child care worker" is common as a professional or semi-professional occupation.

 

[Grumpy]

"Babysitter" is also used in BrE to cover a wide age range, from babies to teenagers. "Child Minder" is also used, but normally means someone who does it regularly [perhaps every day] on a professional basis - whereas a Babysitter will normally be an amateur, who does it occasionally for pocket money.

 

[BobK]

:up: There's also 'au pair' - pronounced without the slightest trace of a French accent - /ǝʊ peə/ ;-) An au pair, sometimes Italicized, lives in and receives pocket money rather than a wage; the idea is that they live on a par with the family - (au pair). An 'au pair' is usually a young foreign woman in her late teens or early twenties, possibly studying. (But I saw a TV piece about widows being sort of 'au pair grannies' - I don't think that was the word though. Anyone:-?

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