Definition of "childs"

You have been… searching! For… a child. No, no, no – two childs! A fine big boy… and a strange little boy. No, no, no… ahhh… a girl! A girl. A boy and a girl.

1966, Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, Stephen Sondheim, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, spoken by Pseudolus (Zero Mostel)

I remember one amusing episode: in a conversation with an engineer when responding to the usual Japanese enquiry in making social talk, "How many childs have you?"

1970, Freda Utley, Odyssey of a Liberal: Memoirs, page 103

"It is as they say;" he clucks; "these childs are smoke the evil dope and the old ways of behave are forget.

1979, Spit in the Ocean, Volume 1, Issues 5-6, page 106

I can have many childs. Ten at a time at once.

2003, Richard Matheson, Duel: Terror Stories by Richard Matheson, page 172

Thus, the initial random vectors are all normalized and the childs are also normalized to unit vectors after any crossover or mutation operation.

2005, Stephan Olariu, Albert Y. Zomaya, Handbook of Bioinspired Algorithms and Applications, pages 6–402

It is poison that has kill our little Rosemarie – and all her life ahead! The doctor say so – and he say I cannot understand about the rich man, why he do it. But I understand that the childs are dying.

2006, Holman Day, The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot, page 192

We are not confused children and if we were then let these childs be free, for life is short and every bit of a smile extends life one more day.

2010, Jack Dazey, Dying For Her Love, page 114