{"id":654,"date":"2011-06-13T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-116-happy-anniversary-or-happy-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T11:20:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:20:03","slug":"day-116-happy-anniversary-or-happy-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-116-happy-anniversary-or-happy-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"day 116: happy anniversary or Happy Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Today is my thirtieth wedding anniversary! Lots of well-wishes have been coming our way on FaceBook and in person&#8211;and I am in quite the celebratory mood! \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Of course, any written words spark interesting discussions about grammar and usage (in my head at least!). And with my anniversary today and my birthday tomorrow, these greetings warrant a little &#8220;language lady&#8221; attention!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Obviously, happy, birthday, and anniversary are not proper nouns in themselves. However, when you write these as greetings, they should be capitalized. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Thus, you would capitalize <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Happy Birthday!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Happy 39th Birthday! (LOL!)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Happy Anniversary!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Happy 30th Anniversary!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">However, you would not capitalize these same words within a sentence when describing a birthday or anniversary: I had a happy anniversary. I enjoyed by day and had a happy birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">So&#8230;Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday to me! \ud83d\ude42 and Happy Flag Day (tomorrow!) to you!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my thirtieth wedding anniversary! Lots of well-wishes have been coming our way on FaceBook and in person&#8211;and I am in quite the celebratory mood! \ud83d\ude42 Of course, any written words spark interesting discussions about grammar and usage (in my head at least!). And with my anniversary today and my birthday tomorrow, these greetings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,640,82,183],"tags":[153,133,195,343,209],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>day 116: happy anniversary or Happy Anniversary! - Character Ink<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-116-happy-anniversary-or-happy-anniversary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"day 116: happy anniversary or Happy Anniversary! - Character Ink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today is my thirtieth wedding anniversary! 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