European Union rename Easter - what next!!

[LeMaquis]

Maybe its because you realise it would make you look like a gullible idiot.

 

Imagine Alf Garnett as Labour leader. That's Mecky.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

The French call Easter 'le Pâques'.

Yes, except that Pâques is plural.

It derives, as do 'paschal' and the name 'Pascal', from the Hebrew word 'Pesach' [= Passover].

Whereas 'Easter' derives from 'Aestas', the Roman Goddess of summer.

[Alien52]

Yes, except that Pâques is plural.

It derives, as do 'paschal' and the name 'Pascal', from the Hebrew word 'Pesach' [= Passover].

Whereas 'Easter' derives from 'Aestas', the Roman Goddess of summer.

Mr Shaw.How dare you bring knowledge onto this Forum.Wash your inbox out.

[Chris_Sleeps]

Yes, except that Pâques is plural.

... and it's not masculine.

 

Must do more homework.

[sccsux]

Nobody has ever tried to rename Christmas as Winterval.

 

Christmas doesn't exist.

[frank ryan]

And I bet the DM didn't write it - I bet they wee taken in (or just didn't care)

 

no they didn't, I made it up in an attempt to demonstrate the ludicrous, racist , little englander posts we have to put up with day after day (see 'xmas renamed 'the holidays'' thread' -it isn't it's called christmas) the post was deliberately and opaquely stupid but still generated discussion, why would the french want to call easter 'eggy time' they don't even call easter 'easter, that's a germanic / celtic name from Aeostre, the goddess of spring.

 

hey ho

[VideoPro]

Christians nicked all their holidays from the old pagan festivals anyway. They just re-purposed them to suit their own ends.

[Alien52]

Christmas doesn't exist.

I am afraid it does,every December.

[sccsux]

I am afraid it does,every December.

 

Nope. That's Yule.

[HeadingNorth]

Nope. That's Yule.

 

An argument which was lost about a millennium and a half ago - but we did manage to hold on to the spring equinox festival's name of Easter. The church hijacked the festival, but couldn't wipe out the name.