[net.misc] In his thirty-first year

dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) (11/30/85)

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