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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12782

    Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
    Twelfth Night is the EVE of the Twelfth Day and so the night 4/5 January.
    ... and yet Bonnie Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens in The Oxford Companion to the Year have their entry for Twelfth-night Cake on 6 January.

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    • subcontrabass
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 2780

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      ... and yet Bonnie Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens in The Oxford Companion to the Year have their entry for Twelfth-night Cake on 6 January.

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      Some people can't count.

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
        Twelfth Night is the EVE of the Twelfth Day and so the night 4/5 January.
        Is it? Why? (Doesn't that make "First Night" Christmas Eve?)

        Whichever - the tree, decorations, and cards are down here.
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Beef Oven!
          Ex-member
          • Sep 2013
          • 18147

          Theresa, how long has Abu Qatada got to appeal?

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          • subcontrabass
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 2780

            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            Is it? Why? (Doesn't that make "First Night" Christmas Eve?)
            Yes. Historically the day begins at sunset (Genesis chapter 1 verse 5: "There was evening, and there was morning: one day").

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
              Yes. Historically the day begins at sunset (Genesis chapter 1 verse 5: "There was evening, and there was morning: one day").
              Ach! Of course - darkness before light.

              I'm still sticking with Dec 25 - Jan 5, though.
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • BBMmk2
                Late Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 20908

                5th January is 12th Night. I hope my thread wouldclose .
                Don’t cry for me
                I go where music was born

                J S Bach 1685-1750

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37588

                  Originally posted by BBMmk2 View Post
                  5th January is 12th Night. I hope my thread wouldclose .
                  Looks like they both have, BBM. Thanks for the putting up the idea - great fun while it lasts.

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                  • MrGongGong
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 18357

                    Given that for many folks it's Christmas Day tomorrow I think ending now is a bit premature

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12782

                      Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                      Given that for many folks it's Christmas Day tomorrow I think ending now is a bit premature
                      ... and some today -

                      Many Orthodox Christians annually celebrate Christmas Day on or near January 7 to remember Jesus Christ’s birth, described in the Christian Bible. This date works to the Julian calendar that pre-dates the Gregorian calendar, which is commonly observed.




                      Happy Christmas! - Շնորհավոր Ամանոր և Սուրբ Ծնունդ.




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                      • Padraig
                        Full Member
                        • Feb 2013
                        • 4224

                        Just in time:



                        PS Tree and decs all neatly put away. I helped.
                        Last edited by Padraig; 06-01-19, 21:49.

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                        • Richard Barrett
                          Guest
                          • Jan 2016
                          • 6259

                          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                          Given that for many folks it's Christmas Day tomorrow I think ending now is a bit premature
                          Indeed so. Having been as usual back in Blighty for the unorthodox Christmas I get two of them a year, it's a bit much to be honest what with all the excessive consumption and everything. [barrel-like emoticon]

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37588

                            Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                            Indeed so. Having been as usual back in Blighty for the unorthodox Christmas I get two of them a year, it's a bit much to be honest what with all the excessive consumption and everything. [barrel-like emoticon]
                            This can be one of the problems of being an internationalist, Richard.

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                            • Beef Oven!
                              Ex-member
                              • Sep 2013
                              • 18147

                              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                              This can be one of the problems of being an internationalist, Richard.
                              Permanent revulsion?

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                              • BBMmk2
                                Late Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20908

                                Back to normal!
                                Don’t cry for me
                                I go where music was born

                                J S Bach 1685-1750

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