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Senior Citizen Discount

Posted by ESC on December 19, 2004

In Reply to: Senior Citizen Discount posted by Ward on December 19, 2004

: Since I'm about ready to turn 65, I will become eligible for lots of Senior Citizen Discounts. The movies (cinema) the restaurants, and lots of other organizations reward older folks with some percent off on prices. When did this term become widespread? It must be relatively recent, since the lifespan has moved up so much in the last 100 years. Is it also practiced elsewhere in the English speaking world?

And what really frosts my prunes is that "they" are trying to move senior citzenhood back to age 55 in the U.S.

Senior citizen has been "popular" since the 1950s. See www.phrases.org.uk bulletin_board 36 messages 48.html So we can figure that the discounts weren't far behind.

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