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Re: Religious Festivities

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, December 24, 1998, 21:19
Laurie Gerholz wrote:
> Many neo-pagan groups celebrate the winter solstice, which falls around > December 20 or 21 in the northern hemisphere. One term for this holiday > is "Yule", but I'm sorry I can't remember the language of origin of the > term.
English. The term is synonymous with Christmas, as in the carol "sing we all the Yuletide carol, fa la la ..."