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To cringe every time I see or hear "only (x) sleeps until Christmas"? What’s wrong with "nights" or "days"?

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Cannotorwillnot · 18/12/2024 15:08

"Sleeps" sounds so deliberately infantile to me. I loathe it. It's completely unnecessary even for young children - if they are so young they can’t understand the concept of days or nights they will almost certainly be having more than one sleep/nap every 24 hours so counting "sleeps" will be meaningless anyway.

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NinaGeiger · 18/12/2024 15:26

I completely agree. I never heard it until I was an adult and I can't bear it