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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
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Subject: In his thirty-first year
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Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 20:58:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 29 20:58:30 1985
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When a newspaper article says something like "J. Alfred Bloggs died
today, in his thirty-first year," I've always assumed this meant that
Fred Bloggs was thirty-one.  But consider this: Your first year *ends*
when you become 1 year old, so in your *second* year you are one year
old.  Similarly, in your thirty-first year, you are thirty years old.

I wonder if newspaper reporters realize this...
-- 
David Canzi

"But lo! men have become the tools of their tools."  -- Henry David Thoreau