docorion.livejournal.com ([identity profile] docorion.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square 2008-09-25 02:27 am (UTC)

A 'score' is 20 (old English expression), so 'four score' is 80, and 'four score and seven' is 87 years.
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