golden birthday
n.— «Probably the most exciting thing was I was born on my older sister’s fifth birthday. I was born on her golden birthday. We always share a birthday and she says I was the best birthday present ever.» —“5 questions: Suzanne Kribs” Naperville Sun (Illinois) Jan. 1, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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Chelsea from Louisville, Kentucky, is having a debate with her husband about how to pronounce antenna. She’s from Chicago, Illinois, and he’s from Louisville. She pronounces the second syllable to sound like the word ten, while he pronounces that...
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A golden birthday occurs once in a lifetime, in the year when a person’s age in years matches the date of the month of the birth date. If born on the 14th of any month, your 14th birthday is golden. This concept was introduced to me by a lassie from upstate New York in about 1982. I never had heard of it before in Kentucky and haven’t heard it much since.
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