Grammar Check

[Filbert]

Which would you say is grammatically correct as a title...
Generation 1973 or The 1973 generation....or can you say both?

[bednobs]

neither

[Peter Pedant]

The 1973 generation
is quite clear about what you mean

[Filbert]

So how would you word it? My minds gone blank and it's only Tuesday

[bednobs]

i jut don't think that a cohort of people in one year can be termed a generation

[sherrardk]

I'm with Bednobs - it can't be a generation from a single year.

[stuey]

The word "generation" in terms of human life is usually considered to be twenty years. For example, if a business advertises that it's been in operation for four generations this means around eighty years or so.

[Filbert]

What could I use instead of generation?

[Peter Pedant]

well far more than you would ever want to know about this here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation

and scrolling down if you are not too tired
you will hit eventually Gertrude Stein and the lost generation or the generation of 1914

[Tilly2]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/generation

30 years, according to this.

[Tilly2]

What are you trying to say, Filbert?

[Filbert]

It's just a title for something I'm doing about people born in that year

[shoota]

Class of '73

[Peter Pedant]

stuey covered in the wiki article

the losses in the Great War were commonly referred to as the lost generation in the twenties ( and that would be four years or for America, two )

Filbert - generation of the early seventies
or seventies generation ....

[Filbert]

And something as simple as a title seems to be the hardest bit....more coffee needed I think...or maybe I've had too much already

[Peter Pedant]

Oh Class of '73 definitely then

[Tilly2]

Child of the seventies?

[Prudie]

Do you mean people born in 1973? I think the 1973 generation is fine personally. When we say my generation we don't mean people up to 20 years older or younger do we.

[shoota]

Progeny of '73

[Prudie]

class of 73 means people who left school in '73