>It seems that 'Nth anniversary' is by far the more common form, although
>N year anniversary' has been attested. I noticed a lot of 'one year
>anniversary' occurrences; what is the relative proportion of 'one year
>anniversary' and 'first anniversary'?
I would have thought this search should also include the simple unmodified
form "anniversary" as well, since the first anniversary may well be referred
to just as the anniversary of ....
(But maybe looking for the absence of such a modifier is a bit harder for
the browsing/concordancing programs ... let's see!)
Clive Souter
School of Computer Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK