“It’s our xxx year anniversary today.”<\/p>\n
Which semi-literate started this? And why do seemingly educated people perpetuate it? An anniversary is the celebration, commemoration, observation, remembrance or recognition of something that happened on the same date in a prior year. The word “year” is unnecessary.<\/p>\n
Today is the 39th anniversary of my first date with my missus. I will not call it our 39 year anniversary.<\/p>\n
A six-month anniversary is not an anniversary, nor is a three-week anniversary. And here, for your delight and delectation, are a\u00a0 number of other commonly-used tautological redundancies redundancies.<\/p>\n SIN number<\/strong>. SIN = Social Insurance Number. Therefore SIN number is Social Insurance Number number.<\/p>\n PIN number<\/strong>. See SIN number above.<\/p>\n VIN number<\/strong>. Don\u2019t get me started.<\/p>\n DIN number<\/strong>. What did I say?<\/p>\n There\u2019s also BIN, GIN, MIN and many others, for those who wish to labour the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “It’s our xxx year anniversary today.” Which semi-literate started this? And why do seemingly educated people perpetuate it? An anniversary is the celebration, commemoration, observation, remembrance or recognition of something that happened on the same date in a prior year. The word “year” is unnecessary. Today is the 39th anniversary of my first date with my missus. I will not… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[261,262,667],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","tag-anniversary","tag-pin-number","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn this <\/a>article, I go into greater depth (aka overdrive!) about the habit. Go ahead–click; the article’s both informative and<\/span> <\/em>entertaining!<\/p>\n