Month Year Old Babies
Yesterday, while watching the Jerry Springer Show (I'm not too proud to admit to this), I heard an interesting slip: "I have a three-month-year-old baby!" I was ready to discount this as a simple error, but the woman-- who was on the show, incidentally, because her boyfriend had been sleeping with her mother-- said it at least twice, so I think there's some systematicity to it. Lo and behold, the Great Oracle of Google reveals 981 hits for "month year old". Very interesting.
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Ugh. Funny thing is that friends of mine think that's fine!
Add that to "n(th)-month anniversary". (For which I propose [and have used] mensiversary.)
Pretty wild! I have a little more sympathy for "month anniversary" because 'anniversary' is slightly more opaque to the average person than 'year.' 'Mensiversary' is quite nice, though. Much better than 'monthiversary,' which I've been known to use on occasion.
Such a bizarre construction. I can't get my head around it. I mean, I read other things that I would never say myself that make a strange sort of sense, but I can't do it for this one.
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