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Hi All,
We know that anniversary means the the yearly recurrence of the date of a past event. Could you people suggest me a word for the monthly recurrence of the date of a past event?
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mensiversary is the most often suggested formulation for this, with luniversary a (poor) second choice. neither has any grounding in history (i.e., both are neologisms).
medieval times did give us a related term, month's mind marked the 30th day after a Christian's death or burial.
edit: Merriam-Webster, in its descriptive way, gives:
broadly : a date that follows such an event by a specified period of time measured in units other than years <the 6-month anniversary of the accident>
Last edited by tsuwm; 05/14/2008 4:58 AM.
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edit: Merriam-Webster, in its descriptive way, gives:
broadly : a date that follows such an event by a specified period of time measured in units other than years <the 6-month anniversary of the accident>
This is so commonly used, in my experience, that even I am becoming acceptive of it.
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Thanks everybody...for the help.
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I think if it is a recurring event you would just say "this month's xyz" or if it is just to mark a month since a once off xyz happened, you would say "it's been a month since xyz." There is no commonly used single word term.
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Something Lunary returns some interesting results.
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Google celebrating the anniversary ? of the invention of the first lazer by changing its name to GDOXIZ ?
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laser is actually an acronym : Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. [EA] look closer at the image, it's intended to read 'Google'; e.g., the last character is l.c. 'e', not 'Z'.. - ron o.
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First, thanks for the acronym. We nontechnical outlanders take those words coming in from English for granted. I never knew. About Google, yes, I know it says Google, but I like to look at the 'double' layer and then I play the little game to take the nonword Gdoxiz to the dictionaries and see what the random outcome is. So: Gdoxiz Perhaps you meant: godzik (found in 1 dictionary) gizoid (found in 1 dictionary) Definitions of Godzik: name: A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #37934) "While experimenting, Eggman gave Emerl a Chaos Emerald which it absorbed. As he couldn't retrieve the jewel, Eggman got angry at the robot and threw it away on a beach, and went to create his own robots, the E-121 "Phi", from the Gizoid's blueprints, empowering them by shards of Chaos Emeralds". > Gizoid
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and then Sonic (the Hedgehog) declaimith not:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
-joe (field-testing DMT, again) friday
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