Re: Mothers' Day; "Teen"
| From: | Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 17, 2006, 22:05 |
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I sent something like this days ago, but I have reason to believe it got
lost in the ether, along with several other emails I composed then.
If this is a duplicate, I apologize.
On Mon, 15 May 2006 07:01:45 +0100, R A Brown <ray@...>
wrote:
>Eldin Raigmore wrote:
>> Today is "Mothers' Day" in the United States of America.
>> I don't know what other countries also celebrate a "Mothers' Day", nor,
if
>> any do, which of them also celebrate on the second Sunday in May.
>
>Yes, we have "Mother's Day" in the UK as well, but not on the second
>Sunday in May. This is a problem for my daughter who has been living in
>the States for several years now. She can never find a Mother's Day card
>to send my wife for Mother's day here. This year she said she'd be
>buying one in May to keep for next year.
I have an Australian nephew and an American niece living in Australia.
They are the son and daughter of my elder sister and her husband. She
died, and he married an Englishwoman living in Australia.
So when my daughter (now a 4th-grader) is sending out Mothers' Day cards to
her aunts, I never know when she should send one to Aunt Margaret; on
English Mothers' Day, which I never manage to keep track of? On Australian
Mothers' Day? -- I don't even know if Australia has one, much less when it
is, if they do. Or on American Mothers' Day?
>Over here it was long ago mixed up with "Mothering Sunday" and Mother's
>Day is celebrated n the 4th Sunday of Lent (i.e. 3 weeks before Easter)
>- so it's a variable feast.
What they used to call "a moveable feast"?
>This year it was 26th March.
Thanks; that's useful information. I'm going to copy that date down.
>==================================
>
>Declan O'Loughlin wrote:
> > Ireland celebrates Mothers Day, and Fathers Day for that matter.
>
>When I was a teen in the 1950s, while we celebrated Mother's Day (as we
>still do) on the 4th Sunday of Lent, we did not celebrated Father's Day
>- tho sometime during the decade, the commercial boys did introduce the
>practice, but IIRC it was slow to catch on. However, we do now have
>father's Day on the 3rd Sunday of June fairly firmly established.
>
>But attempts to introduce other things like Grandmother's Day, etc have
>so far not generally caught on.
In at least some parts of U.S.America, there is at least a sizeable loyal
minority who celebrate Mother-In-Laws' Day (Shouldn't that be Mothers-in-
Law Day? But then, where should one place the "'s"?).
Grandmothers, along with aunts, are all feted on Mothers' Day.
Aside from Mothers' Day and Fathers' Day, only Mother-In-Laws' Day is even
noticed in U.S.America.
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As for "commercial" holidays, most U.S.American holidays were not
originally introduced out of commercial motives, although many have become
mostly commercial now.
The worst-offending exception is "Sweetest Day". It was introduced solely
to sell candy. But why put it in October, which already has Hallowe'en, a
big candy day in the U.S.A.?
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> writes:
> >...
> > Father's Day is typically considered to fall on Ascension Day (40 days
> > after Easter; 25 May this year), but is not such a big thing.
> >...
>
> Hmm? It's one of the the most important days of the year!
>
> > The most common activity is not children making cards for their
> > fathers but men taking advantage of the public holiday and going out
> > with the friends and getting drunk. ...
>
> Errrmmm... ooops...
>
> **Henrik
>
It makes good sense to me to go out drinking with your _father_ near
Fathers' Day. But since it's on a Sunday, maybe do it the Saturday before -
- or the Friday before if either of you can't stand to go to church with a
hangover.
eldin
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