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Old Jan 12, 2014, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Mastodon View Post
Ha, an American friend of mine has told me that in the US, people never talk about their age in terms of which year they were born. He's clearly incorrect about that
(though I don't think there are any terms in English for "people who were born in [decade]"? You say things like "generation x" instead, right?)
The statistical term is "cohort".

Can you use that word in a sentence right now?

"I divided the population into cohorts by lustrum"
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