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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Help! #176926 05/14/2008 4:29 AM Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 24 tuhin stranger tuhin stranger Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 24 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? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help! tuhin #176927 05/14/2008 4:51 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help! tsuwm #176929 05/14/2008 10:43 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803  Originally Posted By: tsuwm 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help! tuhin #176936 05/15/2008 3:36 AM Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 24 tuhin stranger tuhin stranger Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 24 Thanks everybody...for the help. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help! tuhin #176950 05/16/2008 9:47 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania The Pook old hand The Pook old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help! tuhin #176951 05/16/2008 10:09 AM Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand olly old hand olly old hand Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand Something Lunary returns some interesting results. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help! olly #176952 05/16/2008 10:40 AM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Google celebrating the anniversary ? of the invention of the first lazer by changing its name to GDOXIZ ? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help! BranShea #176953 05/16/2008 1:55 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help! tsuwm #176958 05/16/2008 4:23 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help! BranShea #176959 05/16/2008 4:51 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass 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. 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