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[naath]

Ridiculously irritating thing of the day:

People who treat the word Halloween as Hallo-ween rather than Hallow-een and then proceed to make up words like "Jesus-ween" or "sexy-ween" or "Howl-o-ween" (this is a selection of things I've actually seen; I'm not intending to comment on the content intended).

It is All Hallows Eve(ning); the 'w' is part of "hallows" not "evening".

I just... don't understand why people do this.


(Also I've decided I'm going to try to post one thing that's been bugging me/on my mind/happens to sound interesting every day in November; instead of trying to write a novel which clearly would not work).

Comments

[naath.livejournal.com]

I think "Jesus-ween" is because "halloween is EVIL" or something. Which is odd because I always thought of it as a Christian holiday... (the pagan holiday that shares the date is Samhain).

I think the idea is that you hand out goddly pamphlets instead of candy and maybe dress up as apostles rather than "sexy big bird"...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Doh! Yeah, I vaguely remember that, and I guess Jesus-ween is an... appropriate name for it, I just hadn't expected someone in the UK to hear it much. I think I assumed "jesus-ween" would refer to something non-stupid, which in retrospect was really very foolish :)

I always thought of it as a Christian holiday...

I guess it's christian the way the (christian) devil is christian -- only of relevance to a christianity-centric culture, but not necessarily pro christian :)

sexy big bird...

ROFL!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I guess you could compromise by giving out verses from some of the most grisly bits of the bible :)