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Driving to work this morning, I heard somebody on the BBC say that Ukrainians were observing both independence day and the “six-month anniversary” of the Russian invasion. As I pointed out some time ago, anniversary means, literally, “of the turning of a year”. You can’t have an anniversary without a year. There is no English word for a day marking the passage of six months. I guess you could say, “half-anniversary” or “semi-anniversary”, but why not just say, “half a year” or “the six-month point” or “the passage of six months since” whatever happened six months ago?