[Black Agnes]

I’ve been alive 8 decades.

[miserare]

Got you beat by 4 years.

[firebrand]

The mistake most people make, including journalists, is to say someone has entered their sixth decade when they turn sixty. No, they have entered their seventh decade when they turn sixty-one. So they get two things wrong at the same time.

Copy editors LOVE to fix things like this and make everyone crazy.