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The age where you stop counting birthdays and start counting regrets and retirement funds.
means The cardinal number equal to three tens — and the age that culturally marks the exit door from youth.
from From Old English 'þritig,' built from 'þri' (three) plus '-tig,' a suffix meaning 'group of ten' (the same piece that gives us forty, fifty, and the rest). So thirty is literally 'three tens' — a tidy bit of Germanic arithmetic baked right into the word, long before it picked up its modern reputation as the age of reckoning.
- tennis score
- thirty means one point, not thirty points
- flirty saying
- pairs with thirty to rhyme regret into a compliment
- journalism sign-off
- dash-30-dash once meant the story ends
- days hath
- only four months actually have thirty days