Was yesterday my birthday? No. To call it my birthday would make me one day old. That persons resort to such strange usages of language is silly. If calling yesterday my nine-teenth anniversary is obsolete, then the new is wrong and the old is best--in this case, at least; and if persons do not understand me when I say that, they clearly are ignorant of something that should be generally known.

My parents were married 19 years ago, and tomorrow will be the first day of their 20th year. Is tomorrow their wedding day? Ha! No. Silly conventions are just that: silly.