Old Twelfth, the
old In my grandfather's tradition the people celebrated Old Christmas Day, which was the 12th. of Jan. It was a big holliday but so was the day which followed, which was known as "the Old Twelfth" which was the 13th of the month. Nobody ever said that it was the 13th., it was always t...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/60166 2023-12-31T10:19:22+01:00 Old Twelfth, the image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/60166 eng eng O William Bartlett, 70-10/51 Georgetown, C.B References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 13229 O_13229_Old http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/60166 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:40Z old In my grandfather's tradition the people celebrated Old Christmas Day, which was the 12th. of Jan. It was a big holliday but so was the day which followed, which was known as "the Old Twelfth" which was the 13th of the month. Nobody ever said that it was the 13th., it was always the Old Twelfth and it did not mean Old Christmas day; which would be the real Twelfth Day, if they were going by the calender. . . . it has not been observed now for about 20 yrs. [in Georgetown]. DNE-cit JH 10/71 Used I and Sup Used I Not used [see also 'Old Christmas Day', 'Twelfth Day'] Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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old In my grandfather's tradition the people celebrated Old Christmas Day, which was the 12th. of Jan. It was a big holliday but so was the day which followed, which was known as "the Old Twelfth" which was the 13th of the month. Nobody ever said that it was the 13th., it was always the Old Twelfth and it did not mean Old Christmas day; which would be the real Twelfth Day, if they were going by the calender. . . . it has not been observed now for about 20 yrs. [in Georgetown]. DNE-cit JH 10/71 Used I and Sup Used I Not used [see also 'Old Christmas Day', 'Twelfth Day'] |
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