The word "boomer" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a slang term used to refer to a person who was born between the years 1946 and 1964, also known as the "baby boomer" generation. One example of using "boomer" in written English could be: "My parents are both boomers and they often talk about how different life was when they were growing up compared to now."
The cost of meeting the public sector pension bill is growing as the baby boomer generation retires.
As the boomer generation matured, married, found jobs and shouldered mortgages, so the crime rate fell.This encouraging trend was quickly overshadowed, starting in the mid-1980s, by a new swarm of teenagers caught up in a new sort of depravity: the craze for crack cocaine.
Meanwhile, the boomer era has seen falling levels of public investment in America.
At the same time the bulging boomer generation is ageing.
They created the teenager, the yuppie, the baby boomer, the singleton and the metrosexual.
Boomer grandparents will spoil their children's children as eagerly as they once spoiled themselves.Gymboree will not be the only retailer to benefit.
This is especially the case with the baby-boomer generations, who are now ending their paid working lives but have the resources – and the good health – to contemplate a wide variety of activities, the thinktank says.
I was born in 1946 – the baby-boomer generation.
What counts is knowing what makes people tick and not to panic when things go wrong Yet against these odds, some baby-boomer women are now pushing the frontiers of working life not just because they can – now mandatory retirement age has been scrapped – or because they need the money.
I trust that automatic landing systems are now available.Diccon Masterman Borgo a Mozzano, ItalySIR – There is a straightforward reason as to why the baby-boomer generation is becoming more conservative ("As boomers wrinkle", January 1st).
For the baby-boomer generation, the equivalent figure is 40%.
