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03/17/2008: "St. Paddy again"
Today's St. Patrick's Day, and I barely remembered to throw on the green sweater before dashing out the door this morning. I've complained about this before, but it still drives me absolutely barmy to see businesses advertising their "St. Patty's Day" parties. You may call it St. Paddy's Day, and if you insist, you may even call it St. Pat's Day.

However: you must never, ever write it as St. Patty's Day! This point is simply not subject to debate, and next year I'm organizing a boycott of any businesses in town that ignorantly use the wrong spelling in their publicity materials.

"Patty" = Patricia
Paddy = Pádraig, which is of course the original Irish name-- Anglicized as "Patrick."

By the way, I just saw this headline, which made me laugh out loud.

OK, I'm off now to finish a D Major flute in honor of St. Paddy. Better get the project close to completion before cracking that first Guinness, if you know what I mean...

(A few hours later) OK, that D major turned out so well I can hardly believe it! Perhaps the spirit of St. Paddy teamed up with St. Pan to inspire an especially remarkable flute... so let the Guinness flow! --r.


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Replies: 4 Comments

Posted by Faith
Monday, March 17th

Hmm, I see that you have this nice blog sitting here, let me ANNOY it. smile
Padraig is nice! It even sounds like an interesting way to blasphemize but alas I find that he is still called St Padraig. Seems to me that it would simply be more Irish to call him Saint Padraig? Oh well. I'm still routing for the snakes...
And hey its really conveniant that you made a D flute cause I desire one deeply. If only my evil cursed confining creativity strangling money holes known as oboes would sell I would buy it smile
PS: Guinness Envy! They don't hand those out to pregnant women anymore...

Posted by Romy
Monday, March 17th

Faith, if double-posting a comment is part of your annoyance program I've taken care of that and deleted the extra one. Minimal annoyance inflicted so far... .But those emoticons? ARRRGHHH! OK, you got me there.

Actually, It had occurred to me that writing out the full Saint, as opposed to St., might be more appropriate. Got me there, too. I blame the Guinness: it's paradoxically powerful enough to make one forget the finer points of an Irish heritage.

Posted by Faith
Wednesday, March 19th

I didn't mean to, hit the button by accident twice and there's no delete option. I'm sure you can see how this is not my fault.
Also it's your blog, you put the emoticons there how can you blame a girl for using them to denote body language that couldn't possibly be picked up by simply reading the words on the page?
And don't blame the guinness, it should be making you less irritable! THAT's blasphemy!

Posted by romy
Saturday, March 29th

Faith, just kiddin' ya-- you announced an intent to "annoy" the blog so I was striking back pre-emptively.

I'm always complaining about emoticons... I don't mind the regular keyboard emoticons so much, but nowadays one never knows when those silly colored graphic ones might pop up... I have NOTHING to do with those being there-- it's a systemic thing.

In general, I'd rather be misinterpreted or misunderstood than resort to emoticons-- and whaddya know, I get misinterpreted all the time! It's my innate impracticality at work there.

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