When To Use Kid Or Child. It s impressive to see all four of your kids names in the guinness book of world records refers to the names of all four of your four kids. Some people worry that kid when used of a child rather than a juvenile goat is either slang or too colloquial to merit acceptance in standard english.
The fact is that we have been using kid to refer to a child that is human rather than goatish for more than three hundred years now. The boys are going to the bar it s a slang for men getting together to have fun. Kid can be derogatory at times but children is always formal and polite.
A kid is any child either a boy or girl or a baby goat.
Some people worry that kid when used of a child rather than a juvenile goat is either slang or too colloquial to merit acceptance in standard english. So kid s means of a kid and kids means of some kids. It s impressive to see all four of your kids names in the guinness book of world records refers to the names of all four of your four kids. Today unfortunately almost everyone calls children kids.