Re: Five year anniversary?
Tomoji Tabata (tabata@ariake-nct.ac.jp)
Tue, 9 Jul 1996 06:21:12 +0900
At 8:41 AM 8/7/96 +0800, John Milton wrote:
>I've just recieved the following bizarre, but not unusual, request from a
>superior here. I cannot access either the BNC or Cobuild bank. Can anyone
>help? Maybe a concordance of "* year anniversar*" would give him
>reference at least.
>
>> ... there is some controversy within the University concerning the
>> wording incorporated in the new logo: 'Five Year Anniversary'. People
>> are arguing that the phraseology is "wrong" and that 'Fifth Anniversary'
>> would be "better". I have been asked to adjudicate. I copy below one of
>> the e-mails I have received on the subject.
>>
>> "If the English is wrong, I think it should be corrected, particularly
>> for a logo to be copied a thousand time for circulation. You know these
>> days the community has already been complaining on the poor English of
>> students. It would be embarassing to let them laugh that not only
>> students' English are bad, those of the teachers are not good either.
>> Please confirm that whether this is wrong! Thanks."
>>
>
>Thanks for any help.
A quotation search on OED2-CD picks up 156 instances of "anniversary,"
including "anniversarie(s)." But there is no incidence of "* year"
modifying "anniversary."
Hope this would be of any help.
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