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This week marks our tridecennial. That could mean we are entering our
teenage years, though in Internet years we would be middle-aged or beyond.

Of all the dictionaries, today's word tridecennary, is only found in one:
the Oxford English Dictionary. Of the billions of pages on the Web, Google
shows only one hit for the term. Why? People don't like to celebrate
thirteenth anniversaries? It's unlucky? This week in AWAD we celebrate
all things 13 -- we'll feature a few words related to this much-maligned
number.


tridecennary (try-di-SEN-uh-ree) noun

   1. A period of thirteen years.

   2. A thirteenth anniversary.

[From Latin tres (three), from decem (ten) + annus (year).]

-Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org)

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