The salutation is usually rendered 'Happy Birthday' for the same reason that 'Treasure Island' is 'Treasure Island' and not 'Treasure island' or 'treasure island' - usage decrees that not only …

"Happy birthday" is the standard well-wish, but you can vary it in a great many ways to say the same thing. Remember, the reason you are saying this is to wish your friend well on their day …

Dec 1, 2014 · It is an emerging alternative phrase for birthday. The more widely recognized expression is happy birthday. Several references to the term found via Google search suggest …

Jan 13, 2013 · (A person celebrating their birthday can be happy, but the date itself isn't happy). "Happy birthday," then, is just a concise well-wishing greeting, it means, "I hope your birthday …

May 1, 2020 · It seems most natural to use "celebrate." "I'm not going to celebrate her birthday." Saying "Congraulate her birthday" would not make as much sense because you would usually …

If you say "happy birthday" a day early, it's a "preemptive happy birthday". @DavidM points out rightly that preemptive implies something is prevented from happening. This could be mean: …

Possible Duplicate: My wife and I's seafood collaboration dinner I've never known what the proper way to use a sentence in which you and a specific person (as in you can't just say "our" …

It's very much elided, with "hope all is well", but then "happy new year" is very much elided from "I wish you a happy new year". This degree of elision is normal and common with seasonal …

Aug 25, 2021 · When a good compromise is found, it can be described as "striking a happy medium", or "finding a happy medium". The latter version is more common since the mid …

Happy New Year! is a sentence by itself, and thus Happy should be capitalized. It would not be necessary to capitalize "birthday" if you were saying "Happy birthday" instead of "Happy New …