Can We Please Get It Right This Year?

[No_Remainders]

Ok. I'm going to admit, this is a post mainly aimed at Americans. Even more precisely, those ones that, for some reason, celebrate Saint Patricia's day on Saint Patrick's day.

Yes, I'm talking about all ye who insist on thinking that March 17th is Saint "Patty's" day.

This is incorrect. Patty is (at least in the majority of places from what I know) the shortened form of Patricia. And as we all should know: Patricia =/= Patrick.

Get it right please. It's Saint Patrick's Day. Or! Saint Paddy's Day!

 

[PureChaos]

i've never heard it be called St Patty's Day or heard Patricia be mentioned

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Didn't know some people used Patty instead of Paddy. Seems like a big difference.

 

[Radoh]

So... discussion value is where then?

 

[Ramrunner7]

Does that include evacuation day?

I've also heard it called evacuation day here in Boston

 

[Bags159]

I'm pretty sure most people just use the holiday as an excuse to get drunk here in the states.

 

[Dango]

I never knew there was a difference... I'll be sure to remember that though.

 

[Zenrax]

It?s just called Evacuation Day in Boston because A: it does happen to be the day that the British left Boston and B: people wanted a legitimate excuse to get hammered on Saint Patrick?s Day without sounding like ?we?re giving government employees a day off to get hammered?.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Isn't Patricia the female form of Patrick? Also what difference does it make? You're talking about a day dedicated to getting drunk on green beer and acting like a jackass. Which I'm pretty certain is not what St. Patrick stood for or wanted to be remembered for so the guy probably spins in his grave this time every year.

 

[Clockwork Scarecrow.]

March 17th is Saint "Patty's"

*facepalm*

I'm pretty sure they're saying Paddy. As in the short for Patrick.

 

[katsumoto03]

Wait, there's a Saint Patricia? Never heard of her...

Anyway, fuck St. Padd(tt)'s day. It's known to me as my dad's birthday.

 

[No_Remainders]

March 17th is Saint "Patty's"

*facepalm*

I'm pretty sure they're saying Paddy. As in the short for Patrick.

Nah, shitloads type it as Patty from what I've seen.
So many corrections...

Wait, there's a Saint Patricia? Never heard of her...

Anyway, fuck St. Padd(tt)'s day. It's known to me as my dad's birthday.

There is no Saint Patricia. And congrats at your dad!

 

[Agayek]

Ok. I'm going to admit, this is a post mainly aimed at Americans. Even more precisely, those ones that, for some reason, celebrate Saint Patricia's day on Saint Patrick's day.

Yes, I'm talking about all ye who insist on thinking that March 17th is Saint "Patty's" day.

This is incorrect. Patty is (at least in the majority of places from what I know) the shortened form of Patricia. And as we all should know: Patricia =/= Patrick.

Get it right please. It's Saint Patrick's Day. Or! Saint Paddy's Day!

Actually, Patricia is the feminine version of the name Patrick. It was a fairly common practice (and still is in some places) for parents to name their children after heroes, legends, kings, etc. Basically, they'd pick a name from the stories they hear and hope the name carried with it some of the "heroicness" and/or luck from the story to the child.

And since there was a dearth of heroines back when they were setting the trend for this sort of thing, they started feminizing male names to give to their daughters. That's where names like Patricia, Henrietta, etc all came from.

Thus, any shortened form of Patricia is equally applicable to Patrick.

In addition, it's not really St Patty's Day. It's more commonly referred to as St. Paddy's Day. See the first two entries here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy] for an explanation as to why.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

Does it really matter?

I mean, really? Why is it an issue? I'm not trying to argue, I'm just really confused as to why you care? All people do is use the day as an excuse to get even more black-out drunk than usual.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Does it matter? You yanks are nicking our holiday!

Ungrateful wippersnappers...

 

[Barziboy]

Hang on. My Uncle is called Paddy (Christened as Patrick) and he's Irish.

 

[ace_of_something]

I've never seen it spelled as 'Patty' it's always 'Paddy' (at least on bar marquees). I suppose some people with 'meri-kin' accents my pronounce it as 'patty'

Or perhaps people drunk on green dye and dropkick murphy's music say it that way.

 

[pubbing]

Does it matter? You yanks are nicking our holiday!

Ungrateful wippersnappers...

Actually, St. Patricks Day was first celebrated in the United States in New York City by Irish Immegrents. It wasn't until later that Ireland followed suit.

 

[Ladette]

So if I type it as "St.Patty's Day" it'll annoy people? Good to know.