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

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"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.

Most people think talking about "sleeps" to small children with no concept of time who don't have daytime naps is fine. Adults talking about " sleeps" to other adults are being cringingly cutesy and the nurse talking about " sleeps" to an elderly audience was being patronising. Childish language is for use with children.