>be me
>just minding my own business on teh intertubez
>when suddenly a wild story appears
>it starts with 'twenty-two months ago, I was walking by...'
Twenty-two months ago? TWENTY-TWO MONTHS? Who the f@#% says 'twenty-two months'? 'Twenty-two years' sounds more practical, heck, you could even say 'twenty-two winters ago' to make yourself sound cool and Russian, but months?
That's as if instead of saying 'I'll call you again in an hour' you say 'I'll call you again in 3200 seconds'.
WHAT THE F*#$
Why not just say 'two years ago'? Two years ago is pretty much almost spot-on when you're trying to refer to a time that's 22 months ago, and if you're using months as your time measurement as opposed to specifying the time and date flat-out, then chances are you're not trying to be specific anyway, so you might as well approximate and say 'years'.
Besides, who even keeps track of the number of months? Sure, tons of people keep track of the days of the week, and obviously years (it's more likely to encounter someone saying 'last Tuesday' or 'back in 1994'), but months?
COME ON PEOPLE
SPEAK PRACTICAL ENGLISH

















