Please settle this very silly difference of opinion

Your first birthday marks the END of your first year, and so it goes on.

My Mum was 29 for years until it dawned on us that it wasn’t possible. Age really is just a number. Some people are old at 50 and one man used to bounce into the surgery and enjoyed giving his date of birth as ‘98 - meaning 1898 but it did have us foxed initially!

Well put Oopsadaisy3, I agree totally. Sorry if that’s not what you wanted to hear amberdogxK9.?

Your DH is right. When born you are in your 1st year. Confusingly we wait until lst birthday until declaring you are one.

I had an Italian friend who would have insisted that your husband was correct. In 2 weeks I will be in my 80th year.

Be French! I'm 74 but in French that's sixty-fourteen. So I'm still in my sixties - aren't I?

I could be wrong, but I think I heard once that the Greeks even take into account the 9 months before birth when talking about age.

You are in your 70th year! Hope you will be celebrating in style.

You are in your 70th year between your 69th birthday and your 70th. Between your 70th and 71st birthdays, you are in your 71st year. You are alive for 1 year upto your 1st birthday. That is your 1st year. After you turn 1, you enter your 2nd year of life. It's not hard to figure.

On your 70th birthday you will have lived for 70 years, so from the day after that you are then in your 71st year.
So, I'm sorry, but he is right....

DH's grandfather wanted people to think he was old, he regarded this as a badge of honour, after each birthday he would describe his age in the terms "next year I will be entering my x th year" so when he was 78 he was saying that next year he would be entering his 80th year. Not a trait i will be adopting!

You have completed 69 years and are now working on your 70th year

I was hoping I wouldn't be included in the 70+ self isolation yet. I will be 71 in December.

welbeck, shortly after writing the above, I saw that California's governor is calling for seniors and anyone with a chronic health condition to self isolate. In this news release, seniors are referred to as 65 and older:
calmatters.org/health/2020/03/california-coronavirus-gavin-newsom-senior-citizens-chronic-illness/

welbeck, I've not heard any talk of it at all over here as far as specific age groups though there are constant reminders that the older population is more at risk. But generally speaking, everyone is being encouraged to stay home.

dear sukie, any talk of over 70s self isolating across the pond ?

Yes, you are in your 70th year.

I agree with your husband. My mom celebrated her 99th birthday in January. She will occasionally mention in conversation that she is now in her 100th year. And she is.

Yes, funny that! I do have a choice of three - but even I'm very well aware that the average home may only have one!

Either way Amberdog you're not in your 70s yet.
Elengran what do you do if you have two bathrooms and only two toilet rolls? In these surreal times it would appear that everyone has lots of bathrooms.

(given age)

Age can be complicated. I had to look up the East Asian system when enrolling students. Their given en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoningage and date of birth was rejected by our college computer!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning

Right, here goes, I carried on thinking and that was dangerous.

'Think about a baby: when it reaches its first birthday it has lived for one year already. On its first birthday it enters its second year which comes to an end on its second birthday.'
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'2) When you were a baby of a few months, were you in your first year until you reached your birthday?

3) When you were one and a half, were you still in your first year or halfway through your second?'
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When I was a baby I was referred to in weeks / months and I was 1 year old 12 months after being born and hence I was 1 year old only from that date. I had lived for a year by then so I was in my 2 nd year.

Is this a case of no right and no wrong.?

I am a very simple soul obviously ?

Also I must be very, very bored ?

What about ' NEXT ' Thursday and ' THIS ' Thursday. They are both the same aren't they but I fall out with my hubby over that.

Oh hell amberdog, look what you've done to me.

We had a rather eccentric History teacher who never used to keep it simple, but would say, for example:

"Elizabeth I was a young woman of some 23 Summers."

Ruddy annoying when you were frantically scribbling down notes.

Ps he won't argue with us all because he's right, sorry amber