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Apr 1, 2008 · "My birthday celebration" is an odd way to say it and "celebration" isn't exactly clear as it could mean a party, but it could just mean "the process of commemorating the day", i.e. what you have for breakfast might be part of the way that you celebrate your birthday.
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Aug 21, 2014 · This is considered as her pre-birthday celebration. (Her birthday is two days from now.) Yesterday, we went to the beach for his post-birthday celebration. (His birthday was the day before yesterday.) Is it idiomatic to use pre- or post- when someone's birthday is celebrated or the party held not on the exact date of birth.
Which is correct—birthday “celebrant” or “celebrator”?
Jun 15, 2012 · For its part, the AHD primarily defines “celebrant” in essentially the same vein as the first OED definition, as (a) “A person who participates in a religious ceremony or rite”; (b) “A person who officiates at a religious or civil ceremony or rite, especially a wedding”; and (c) “In some Christian churches, the cleric officiating ...
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Jul 3, 2006 · "Buon compleanno. Ti auguro di passare (spero che passerai) una splendida giornata con i tuoi." Would the "tuoi" in this case refer to his whole family or parents.
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Jun 10, 2011 · Birthday isn't a celebration. Birthday party, Christmas, easter, are celebrations and use "at". Dazun ...
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Dec 28, 2015 · An American gentleman once held a door open for me at the gift shop of Yosemite National Park. I said 'Thank you, sir,' to which he replied 'Certainly', which I thought different, but not inappropriate.
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Sep 1, 2014 · A letter to me from a Forum member based in Exeter, Pennsylvania (August 31, 2014): Dear Mr. Carillo, A couple of years ago, I went to Hawaii to attend a friend’s birthday celebration. When the birthday celebrant was about to blow the lighted candles on his cake, a Doña Dionisia look-alike dressed in ballroom danc
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Jan 22, 2012 · "In the party" can be correct -- but not in the way you want to use it. The word "party" can also mean "a specific group of people", and if used that way (which you were not doing), one can speak of being "in" a party.
How to refer to the person who is celebrating his birthday?
Sep 16, 2012 · In Canada, a more idiomatic phrase is used: "birthday boy/birthday girl". Your phrase would be fine, but the tense is wrong. Since you're speaking of the past, you wouldn't use "is". You'd say, "Back in college, in our gang, it was always the person who celebrated his/her birthday who treated everyone to a restaurant on his/her birthday
Where is it rude to open a present in front of the giver?
Dec 10, 2009 · Birthday and Christmas parties usually call for a "special opening presents party"; which, like Frank78 mentioned, does not need to be immediately after. I think I have heard somewhere that one should not open presents in front of the person who gave them, chances are you won't like the present and it all will be awkward.