It would depend on where you are setting the upper limit, "the under twelves", "the under sixteens", for example.Hi,
"The under-10s" must mean the chlidren under the age of ten. What should we use when we want to refer to the children above 10?
It would depend on where you are setting the upper limit, "the under twelves", "the under sixteens", for example.
The under tens and the over tens.Thanks. What if we don't have any upper limit? I mean when we want to divide them in half?
The under tens and the over tens.
Right in the middle.;-)Where do you put the tens?
Rover
But Merhgan wants to divide them in half.
Rover;-)
Oh, I take it you misunderstood Merhgan. It was a test to see whether you would accept dividing those poor children in half or not.
;-)
In AmE, we usually refer to 11 and 12-year-olds as "pre-teens." In recent years the media has started referring to kids aged 10 to 12 as "tweens" - a slang term to describe that they are "between" being a child and a teenager. :-D So, in summary, we basically classify children as either infants (babies), toddlers (one and two-year-olds), pre-schoolers (three and four-year-olds), various names for five to nine-year-olds, including "under 10s", pre-teens (or adolescents) and teenagers.