Do the British use the word "score" in combinations like?

Question

"ten score" or "two score" nowadays? What about the words "foot" and "dozen" ? Could you please give some examples? Thank you

Answer 1

Score is not much used nowadays. However, 'foot' and 'dozen' are in regular parlance. I wind my kids up when they talk about 'metres', (meters if you're US) telling them 'don't talk to me in metric!' Foot/feet is the usual way of describing height - he's 5ft 10 = he is 5 feet and 10 inches tall = 70 inches = 1.78m.

Answer 2

we don't use the ten score and two score anymore but we do use foot and dozen like a dozen eggs and a foot long.

Answer 3

Yeah some of those words are still used like dozen and foot. Dozen meaning 12 and foot as a unit of measurement.  The other 2 examples you gave have not been used in years.

Answer 4

In my 32 years in London I have never heared or read the word in reference to a fixed sum, except in reference to total sum or to gain points or favour.

Answer 5

Not really.

Londoners use the word 'score' to mean £20, or specifically a £20 note.

Cockney slang = Apple Core.

They use dozen and foot regularly, both measurements of number and distance respectively.

EG:

Oi, you owe me a score.

Give me 2 dozen eggs

That car is 2 foot (feet) off the ground