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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:35:27 +0100
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- From: torkel@SICS.SE
- Subject: Re: Holidays
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu,
- 24 Dec 92 17:10:08 -0600. <9212242310.AA20881@sics.se>
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- >It's not xmas yet -- not even in Europe.
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- Actually in the Nordic countries, for some reason lost in the mist of
- time, Christmas Eve is the big day of Christmas, with dinners and presents
- and so on. On Christmas Day, people just lie in a stupor.
-