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From the original post:
2008-10-11 13:15:09.0
For those of you who wish.......add your own interesting facts and pretty soon all of us will know useless...
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Posted: Oct 11, 08 1:50pm
The word Halloween is a Scottish contraction of All Hallow’s Even or All Hallow’s Eve, a reference to All Saint’s Day which falls on the first of November. October 31st is the day before, or eve of, this church holiday. The contraction dates to the 18th century when it is first recorded in the Scottish folk ballad Young Tamlane:
This night is Hallowe’en, Janet,
The morn is Hallowday.
The form All Hallow’s Eve is older, dating to at least 1556. From the Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London:
Thys yere the towne of Depe was tane...on Halhalon evyn.
(This year the town of Depe was taken...on All Hallow’s even.)
And the church holiday is even older. From Ælfric’s Grammar from c.1000:
se mónað ongynð on ealra halgena mæssedæg
(The month begins on All Hallow’s Mass-day.)
(Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition)
Posted: Oct 11, 08 1:55pm
I would have never known that! That's cool!
Just shot this photo. There has to be a better word then shot or shoot. Take or taken sounds like stealing and I'm sharing...A Moment I Recorded......
you just "captured" this photo will work well, too...
Posted: Oct 11, 08 2:02pm
Great capture?
Posted: Oct 11, 08 2:11pm
I didnt say it had to be true...............I typed it as it appeared.......and who knows it to be true or not.......were any of those at snopes alive in the 16th and 17th centuries.......did you not see the tag, HUMOR???
And my, what a fantastic copy and paste job! I couldn't have done better myself. Still, I'm going to ship my manure high in transit regardless of the true/false application. Then we can find the true acronym behind...sthuw! (stand the hades up wind where most assuredly butterflies are free to fly! Awesome shot!
Posted: Oct 11, 08 2:19pm
I did....and I put it up here....but alas the powers that be took it down because of the word.............ah well.............
And to think...Therapists needed permission from the king??? Oh my!
Posted: Oct 11, 08 2:24pm
And my, what a fantastic copy and paste job! I couldn't have done better myself. Still, I'm going to ship my manure high in transit regardless of the true/false application. Then we can find the true acronym behind...sthuw! (stand the hades up wind where most assuredly butterflies are free to fly! Awesome shot!
Bob, I actually typed it out of a local rag here in town........I could have scanned it, but that would mean dragging my scanner downstairs....and I couldnt be bothered lol
Posted: Oct 11, 08 2:31pm
Bob, I actually typed it out of a local rag here in town........I could have scanned it, but that would mean dragging my scanner downstairs....and I couldnt be bothered lol
oops. Say, did you know that snopes disabled the 'right click' function for your mouse.
Monty Python defined proper usage of the 'F word' in case yer intersted. Excellent grasp of using the english language if I do say so myself. Unfortunately, I only speaks Ehmerikhen!