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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes. The word originates from an Old English phrase meaning "fourteen nights".
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I thought it was but we don't encounter it very often here in the U.S. just like the word 'score.' I mean we hear about it in terms of the 'score' of the game (basketball, football etc) but not in the sense of 'four score and seven....' which means it's also a way of counting out 20 of something i.e. 20 yrs so that four score and seven would be 87 yrs.