Samhain is the end of the Celtic year
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Steph L. - Oct 31, 2007 5:31:48 am PDT #1757 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
beekaytee - Oct 31, 2007 5:34:38 am PDT #1758 of 10002
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The people who celebrate it could do a much better job than I'm doing.
I'm one of those and I think you did quite well there.
It is a sacred day that constitutes the last spoke on the wheel of the year. (Yule is considered the 'new' year.)
It's a time for feasting and communing with ancestors...calling for guidance and assistance through the dark months.
Pronounced, by many, as Sow-in.
Steph L. - Oct 31, 2007 5:34:58 am PDT #1759 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Oatmeal:
I'm sure I pronounce Samhain wrong, even though I know the correct way to pronounce it -- I can't get my mouth to make the proper sounds. (I pronounce it, more or less, as "saw-ayn.")
Jessica - Oct 31, 2007 5:37:11 am PDT #1760 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think most Americans pronounce it phonetically (SAM-hayne) until corrected.
JZ - Oct 31, 2007 5:37:43 am PDT #1761 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Happy Birthday, Daniel!
Happy Anniversary, House Of Reason!!!
(Sorry, Pete, but Jilli's got the job suck right now so she gets the compensatory just-for-her color scheme)
tommyrot - Oct 31, 2007 5:40:16 am PDT #1762 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Happy b-day Daniel!!
Happy Anniversary, Jilli & Pete!!!
It took me a bit to figure out that it's probably not a coincidence that the House of Reason's anniversary is on Halloween....
-t - Oct 31, 2007 5:43:18 am PDT #1763 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
How've you been pronouncing it?
Like it was an English word, sam-hain. I'm told that the middle consonant is more of a w sound. I think I'm going to avoid ever saying it outloud because I will not be able to remember what is correct, ever.
Jars - Oct 31, 2007 5:47:02 am PDT #1764 of 10002
Yeah, it's pretty much Sow (to rhyme with cow) - in. In Irish the last syllable of words tends to get deadened a bit, so it sounds a bit like sow-un too. Yeah, a cross between sow-in and sow-un.
Sparky1 - Oct 31, 2007 5:47:27 am PDT #1765 of 10002
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Happy Anniversary House of Reason!
Happy Birthday, Daniel!
It's house buying day and I have to go to the bank.
d - Oct 31, 2007 6:04:37 am PDT #1766 of 10002
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
Happy House Buying Day, Sparky!