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   Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 23:37:16 JST Mrs Cloudy

   Wondering why Americans call New Year, New Years. Why the plural when it's just one year that's new? Just musing.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 23:42:26 JST Mrs Cloudy

     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @JackTheCat mibbies

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     Patrick Hadfield (patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 23:52:26 JST Patrick Hadfield

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     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @CloudyMrs @JackTheCat I've always assumed it the possessive, New Year's, rather than a plural - a contraction of New Year's [Day][Eve], or whatever.

     Though your explanation may be more likely!

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:06:12 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Marty Cormack

     @MartyCormack but without Eve, Day or Appostrophe, it makes no sense. For example "we went to bla for New Years". Seems to be quite common. No biggie though. Hope you have a good one. 👍

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     Marty Cormack (martycormack@urbanists.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:06:13 JST Marty Cormack

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     @CloudyMrs
     Because of the frequent (and correct) use of "New Year's Eve" or "New Year's Day." It is possessive and not plural. But leaving off the apostrophe and Eve/Day suffix is incorrect.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:07:01 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @JackTheCat @patrickhadfield now now Jack. Play nice.

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     JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 (jackthecat@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:07:02 JST JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

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     • Patrick Hadfield

     @patrickhadfield @CloudyMrs Not implying that the large majority of Muricans are educationally limited banjo playing turnips. It takes talent to play the banjo. Unless you've got tiny Trump hands.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:08:01 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @Roadwarrior29 @JackTheCat my work computer is stuck on American English. Spell check is a pain in the bum.

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     Axel Foley (roadwarrior29@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:08:02 JST Axel Foley

     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @JackTheCat @CloudyMrs Alooooominum...👀🤣

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:08:58 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @JackTheCat @patrickhadfield 🤣

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     Axel Foley (roadwarrior29@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:10:27 JST Axel Foley

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     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @CloudyMrs @JackTheCat or, the "ass" 🤣

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:10:31 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @JackTheCat @Roadwarrior29 except it is a totally different vegetable depending on where you are. I once accidentally ordered an English Turnip instead of the neep I needed for beside my tatties.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:10:59 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @Roadwarrior29 @JackTheCat or even the fanny. 😳

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     Axel Foley (roadwarrior29@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:11:46 JST Axel Foley

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     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @CloudyMrs @JackTheCat

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     Bodhipaksa (bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:16:58 JST Bodhipaksa

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     @CloudyMrs As a Scot living in the US for over 25 years ... Americans do often say "New Year's" but it's shorthand for "New Year's Eve (or Day)." It's a possessive, not a plural.

     Some people will write "New Years," but that's a failure to include the possessive apostrophe, which I believe happens sometimes in Blighty as well.

     The thing that puzzles me is the difference in spoken emphasis. Americans say "Happy NEW Year" while in Scotland I think we always said "Happy New YEAR."

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:23:13 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Bodhipaksa

     @bodhipaksa when I grew up in Caithness it was always Good New Year, with the emphasis on Good. Older folk still say it.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:25:08 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @JackTheCat @Roadwarrior29. Life is neeps. https://www.facebook.com/MacsweenHaggis/videos/2164204113589895/

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:27:10 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @ForfarFairLady @Roadwarrior29 @JackTheCat mystery.

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     Tricia🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁳🇪🇺 (forfarfairlady@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:27:11 JST Tricia🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁳🇪🇺

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     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @Roadwarrior29 @CloudyMrs @JackTheCat And why is their "ass" not a swear word, while our "arse", is? 🤔 🤷♀️

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:29:57 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

     @JackTheCat @Roadwarrior29 suit yourself it's on every other platform you might use except here. Life is neeps. True story.

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     Bodhipaksa (bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:47:02 JST Bodhipaksa

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     @CloudyMrs I don't think I ever heard anyone say "Good New Year" anywhere I lived in Scotland (mainly Fife and Glasgow), unless they were using the expression "A guid New Year tae ane and aw."

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 00:49:26 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Bodhipaksa

     @bodhipaksa Caithness might as well be a different country.