It's not "10 year anniversary"!!

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It's 10th anniversary. Anniversary means yearly. Does my head in. Ditto PIN number.

I'm a right pedant and I really couldn't be arsed to get upset about either of those two things

It’s one thing to be a pedant, another to be a pedantic dickhead.

Thankfully things like this don’t bother me. I can’t imagine it’s good for your health to get wound up by such little insignificant things in the grand scheme of life. As long as I understand what people are trying to say to me I really don’t care if they are grammatically correct.

I think you need to reread what you just posted… @didntlikeanyofthesuggestions 😂

Anniversary means the annual recurrence of a date. Therefore, it is redundant to add year (eg 10 year anniversary). As Merriam-Webster states in their definition, it is sometimes used for other time periods but in that case the time period must be specified. Anniversary without a specified time period can only mean the original definition.

What other uses of the word are there?!

That's an American dictionary.

It's a joke. Don't call me a dickhead please.

Very bold of you to be ordering people about when you’re so wrong!

Forward planning. As opposed to... backwards planning?

Ordering around? Have you responded to the right post?

It’s genuinely impressive how passionately you defend such a tiny, inconsequential point about pedantry. It's a shame that the point itself isn’t actually correct as my posts have shown. I think the irony might be lost on you though and I don't think any further posts here are going to be helpful.

I'll set a reminder to check this post again on it's one year anniversary to see if it got resolved.

You’re still wrong though 🤷🏻‍♀️

I always thought anniversary was Latin-(been a while since I did it at school.

annus versus which means year turning

And if you were one of those people who love to mark the progress of your relationship, like another poster's DC above, what noun would you use for the non-yearly events?

"I'm taking Sara out to dinner tonight because it's our six-month ... mensaversary ...."

As the Merriam-Webster definition posted says, if you add a time period before anniversary, it is used for time periods other than annual. Although, it’s an oxymoron 🤷‍♀️ Half anniversary (6 months) etc would probably be better, if you want to be pedantic 😂

Anniversary used alone always means an annual recurrence so year is redundant. You wouldn’t say it’s my 10 year birthday would you?

No, but that's because birthdays really only do come once a year, by definition. You're saying that "anniversary" is the same, but I'm saying it's not.

We needed a word to express the idea of "marking a certain number of units of time passed since a specific meaningful event", and there wasn't one, so "anniversary " stepped in to fill the gap.