I’m not sure what it is, but I have seen an increase in the use of the nonesensical word monthiversary lately. It’s used to refer to a monthly celebration of a certain date (This is our third monthiversary).
The problem is that there is already a word for monthly celebrations. It’s mensiversary.
Sure, the naysayers will claim you can’t find mensiversary in the dictionary. But consider where you can find it:
- Page 250 of the 1835 book Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh
- Page 312 of an 1883 issue of the journal Notes and Queries
- Page 39 of an 1896 issue of The Yellow Book
- Page 266 of a 1920 issue of The Journal of English and Germanic Philology
- Page 409 of the 1905 book Catholic world
- The 2 March 1925 issue of Time Magazine
- Several novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Sure, mensiversary isn’t common (if it were, no one would have made up a new word to mean the same thing), but it certainly came first and shows a widespread usage among different authors (including academics).