| 词组 | anniversary |
| 释义 | anniversary Kilpatrick 1984 animadverts on the use of anniversary to mark the recurrence of a period other than a year. He cites among his examples a Wall Street Journal report of Poland's "six-month anniversary" of a military crackdown. This use seems to be chiefly an oral one that is found very infrequently in print. A correspondent wrote to ask us about it in 1967, claiming it to be "not uncommon in speech." At that time we had but a single example in print: • On the 15-month anniversary of Defense he had at last accepted a way to get everything done that must be done —Time, 8 Sept. 1941 Our evidence since then is scant. Our correspondent of 1967 seems to have been right: it is probably not uncommon in speech (we do have some confirming evidence), but it remains uncommon in print. The extension to a period of time other than a year does not seem especially irrational, however, in the absence of an alternative word for the idea. |
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