“Today is our wedding birthday.”
Usage Entry 1315 / 1350 60-second read
Anniversary vs. Birthday
The yearly marker of any event versus specifically the yearly marker of a birth.
The comparisoni
“Today is our wedding anniversary — birthdays are for births. Anniversaries mark any yearly recurrence.”
The ruleii
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BIRTHDAY = birth. ANNIVERSARY = any event.
BIRTHDAY marks the anniversary of a birth. ANNIVERSARY marks the yearly recurrence of any event — wedding, founding, death, first date. Every birthday is an anniversary (of a birth); not all anniversaries are birthdays.
Memory aidiii
Remember it like this
Birthday = you. Anniversary = event.