The word birthday sometimes seems strange to me. It is what it is. "Birth" day. It's so literal.
Couldn't we have come up with something more creative?
We don't call a couple's anniversary weddingday.
Although anniversary is a very generic word. Not only is an anniversary a time for romantic celebration, it can also be a time for mourning, as even Sept. 11 has an anniversary.
Maybe weddingday would be better word for a couple's anniversary. And Sept. 11 would be plane-takes-out-world-trade-centre day.
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anniversary is a simple word that means what it says... just not in english
anniversary – c.1230, from L. anniversarius "returning annually," from annus "year" + versus, pp. of vertere "to turn".
Yeah, I know. It's not very specific or creative.
plane-takes-out-world-trade-centre day... are you insane?
-pepé
Not insane. Just renaming the day to be more specific to what happened, just like birthday.
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