Please settle this very silly difference of opinion

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

I guess this discussion arose due to the intention to quarantine the elderly. I say if it is to your advantage you are in your 70th year, if it is not to your advantage then you are 69. The best of both worlds. ?

Right here goes again. Definately bored ?

Why don't we call a new born baby 1 years old and when said baby reaches 12 months we call it 2 years old.

Because we use weeks and months prior to it's 1st birthday.

Still thinking both are right.

Between being born and your first birthday you are IN YOUR FIRST YEAR. but you are NOT YET ONE.

YOU ARE IN YOUR 70TH YEAR, but you are not yet 70 !!!!

No, no, no, a 6 month old baby isn’t one year old until it’s reached 12 months old.

It’s the difference between how old you are and which year you are in.

A baby is in its first year of life up until its first birthday - therefore you’re in your 70th year of life until your 70th birthday

Yes, when you have had your 69th Birthday, you are then entering into your 70th year at the end of which you celebrate on your 70th Birthday having reached it.

A toddler of say six months is said to be in its 1st year and it goes on from there.

My father wanted to live to 80 years but died at 79 - we put “in his 80th year” on the gravestone. ?

You are in your 70th year and in some cultures you would already be 70 as they count a baby as 1 from its birth. So you do have something to be thankful for.

Yes, he's right (on this occasion)

I was going to say exactly the same

Your age is 69 but you are in your 70th year. When you are born you will be in your 1st year until you turn one year old. The day after your first birthday you will be in your second year.

Husband definitely right you are in your 70 year and explained well by luckyfour

You are still enjoying your 69th year until you are 70.
At uni you are in your second year the day after the first one ends and in it for the following 364 days ??

Nonsense, Gabriella. As I thought I had explained up-thread : OP was in her first year before she was a year old so it follows that she was in her second year before she was two and so on until now she is in her 70th year while she is 69.

Apologies, Luckyfour. I got so irritated by G54's ignorant post that I didn't look back on your post saying the same as mine.

No Gabs - you’re in your first year of life until you turn 1, then you’re in your 2nd year of life until your turn 2. Count up the way until you get to 69 and then substitute the numbers and it becomes clear - once you turn 69 you’re in your 70th year up until you turn 70.

Well I reckon you know the answer by now Amberdog
Like Belladonna(I presume-sorry if that is not correct-since I was born in October 1940,I am in my 80th year.