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[Laurence Horn]

> On Mar 17, 2018, at 2:35 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That's 30% "ten-year anniversary" to 70% “tenth-year anniversary”. Hardly
> insignificant.
> 
> Mark

Right, but I didn’t try to distinguish the wedding anniversary uses (tenth-year anniversary present; ) as opposed to the more general uses.  So there are lots of posts about what people did—where they traveled to, where they ate, what gifts they came up with--to celebrate their tenth year [wedding] anniversary, but googling “it’s the ten(th) year anniversary” (eliminating most if not all of the wedding contexts), yields this striking disparity:

"It’s the ten year anniversary”     145 actual hits     
"It’s the tenth year anniversary”.   30 actual hits

Examples:

It's the ten year anniversary of grandfather's death.
It's The Ten Year Anniversary Of History's Most Famous Fellatio: What Have We Learned From Monicagate?
It's The ten-year anniversary of Britney Spears' very public meltdown and now you finally understand it.
It’s the Ten-Year Anniversary of Realizing ‘Garden State’ Sucked
It's the ten-year anniversary of the original iPhone, and Apple is developing a special, $1,000 “iPhone X” with a new, bezel-free screen.

It's the tenth year anniversary of 9/11
It's the tenth year anniversary of DIG The Movie documentary.
It's the tenth year anniversary of the national magazine “Typo”
It's the tenth year anniversary of when me and him met.

LH



> 
> PS: 144 lines of thread deleted. Hm, please, folks?
> 
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> FWIW, I just tried checked “ten-year anniversary” vs. “tenth-year
>> anniversary”.  The former has 440 actual G-hits, the latter 190.
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