Please settle this very silly difference of opinion

This is the same issue some people had with the millennium. There was no year zero. So if you start from year one and work through all the centuries, the last year of the twentieth century was 2000 and the first year of the twenty-first century was 2001.

amberdogK9 ….hasn't been back so I'm wondering if she's accepted her husband was right, and gawn off in a huff.

Or she is watching from the side lines, chuckling at how clever she is, setting up a thread that has happily chugged along for two pages and looking like it still has life in it yet!

Any other ideas to keep us occupied amberdogK9 through this strange time?

DH is right. When you are born you are in your first year until 1st birthday and then you enter your 2nd year as so it goes on

And this is the reason people don't post on even light hearted posts.

'ignorant'?

Totally unnecessary.

And I still reckon you are in your 69th year?

i know you aren't, but I don't care ?

Amber, you certainly stirred things up among the GNs, and got us off the subject of (you know what)

I wouldn't give DH the satisfaction of telling him that he is right Just quietly drop the subject

I agree POGS, using the word 'ignorant' was perhaps a little unnecessary. But actually anno referred to Gabriella's post as ignorant, not Gabriella herself

I have to say that I agree with anno's view though in general - you are, of course, in your first year from birth to one, in your second year from your 1st birthday until your second and so on, until at 69, you are in your 70th year, but not yet in your 70s of course.

The Chinese start you at 1 on the day your born.

Hang on I thought this was is a light hearted thread.

I saw no poster deserving to be called ignorant. Certainly when that poster used emojis to show light hearted banter.

It's just a difference of opinion and hardly discussing life or death.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ??

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

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.

I was going to say exactly the same

Yes, he's right (on this occasion)

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.

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. ?

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 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

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.

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 !!!!

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.

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. ?