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Re: Mothers' Day; "Teen"

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Thursday, May 18, 2006, 12:48
On 5/18/06, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> > Eh? 40 doesn't divide evenly by 7. Ascension Day is always on a > _Thursday_.
Yeah, well, given the funny ways of counting found in the moveable feasts, I wouldn't trust "40 days" to mean 40 days in that context. I mean, Lent is supposedly 40 days, but it's really 46 because the Sundays aren't counted in the 40. :) -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>