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When one brings forward the date of one's birthday party by one day ..
Hi,
say my birthday is on May 30th, which is a sunday, but I really want to tear it up and kill all the beer I've got with my friends. That makes sunday a bad choice, so I have my party on the 29th. In German we say "reinfeiern" which could be translated into English as "to celebrate into". I've been looking for quite some time now and I don't seem to find an answer, no matter how much more dictionaries I flip through.
How do you call it?
Hope someone can elp me with that.
Best,
Sebastian
say my birthday is on May 30th, which is a sunday, but I really want to tear it up and kill all the beer I've got with my friends. That makes sunday a bad choice, so I have my party on the 29th. In German we say "reinfeiern" which could be translated into English as "to celebrate into". I've been looking for quite some time now and I don't seem to find an answer, no matter how much more dictionaries I flip through.
How do you call it?
Hope someone can elp me with that.
Best,
Sebastian
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[nq:1]Hi, say my birthday is on May 30th, which is a sunday, but I really want to tear it up ... don't seem to find an answer, no matter how much more dictionaries I flip through. [/nq] I don't know of any term that means "to celebrate an occasion on a day other than the correct one".
- [nq:1]Hi, say my birthday is on May 30th, which is a sunday, but I really want to tear it up ...
- don't seem to find an answer, no matter how much more dictionaries I flip through.
- [/nq] I don't know of any term that means "to celebrate an occasion on a day other than the correct one".
- There is the term "unbirthday", used jocularly to describe a celebration unrelated to anything.
- Perhaps you could use it.
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[nq:1]Hi, say my birthday is on May 30th, which is a sunday, but I really want to tear it up ... don't seem to find an answer, no matter how much more dictionaries I flip through. How do you call it?[/nq]
I don't know of any term that means "to celebrate an occasion on a day other than the correct one".
There is the term "unbirthday", used jocularly to describe a celebration unrelated to a
I don't know of any term that means "to celebrate an occasion on a day other than the correct one".
There is the term "unbirthday", used jocularly to describe a celebration unrelated to a
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[nq:1]There is the term "unbirthday", used jocularly to describe a celebration unrelated to anything. Perhaps you could use it. I believe it originatedin the "Pogo" comic strip. (When we go to a grandchild's birthday party, we bring her sister an "unbirthday" present.)[/nq]
There was an unbirthday party in the 1951 Disney
version of "Alice in Wonderland." It doesn't seem
to have been u
There was an unbirthday party in the 1951 Disney
version of "Alice in Wonderland." It doesn't seem
to have been u
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CONTRARIWISE! It's one of the Carrollian Humpty Dumpty's linguistic innovations (in Through the Looking Glass ):
"They gave it me," Humpty Dumpty continued thoughtfully, as he crossed one knee over the other and clasped his hands round it, "they gave it me-for an unbirthday present."
"I beg you pardon?" Alice said with a puzzled air.
"I am not offended," said Humpty Dumpty.
"I
"They gave it me," Humpty Dumpty continued thoughtfully, as he crossed one knee over the other and clasped his hands round it, "they gave it me-for an unbirthday present."
"I beg you pardon?" Alice said with a puzzled air.
"I am not offended," said Humpty Dumpty.
"I
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[nq:2]in There was an unbirthday party in the 1951 Disney ... doesn't seem to have been used, though, by Lewis Carroll.[/nq]
[nq:1]CONTRARIWISE! It's one of the Carrollian Humpty Dumpty's linguistic innovations (in Through the Looking Glass ):[/nq]
I must have been misgoogled.
Michael West
[nq:1]CONTRARIWISE! It's one of the Carrollian Humpty Dumpty's linguistic innovations (in Through the Looking Glass ):[/nq]
I must have been misgoogled.
Michael West
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[nq:1]we[/nq]
[nq:2]CONTRARIWISE! It's one of the Carrollian Humpty Dumpty's linguistic innovations (in Through the Looking Glass ):[/nq]
[nq:1]I must have been misgoogled.[/nq]
Carroll was there first, but Disney took a brief colloquy and blew it into a major production number (complete with an STS-worthy song), so it's hardly surprising you want to give the blame whoops credit to Dis
[nq:2]CONTRARIWISE! It's one of the Carrollian Humpty Dumpty's linguistic innovations (in Through the Looking Glass ):[/nq]
[nq:1]I must have been misgoogled.[/nq]
Carroll was there first, but Disney took a brief colloquy and blew it into a major production number (complete with an STS-worthy song), so it's hardly surprising you want to give the blame whoops credit to Dis
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[nq:1]Hi, say my birthday is on May 30th, which is a sunday, but I really want to tear it up ... don't seem to find an answer, no matter how much more dictionaries I flip through. How do you call it?[/nq]
Er...my birthday party? In English, at least, there's no strict requirement that you celebrate your birthday party on your actual anniversary date. If it were a week or so late you might call
Er...my birthday party? In English, at least, there's no strict requirement that you celebrate your birthday party on your actual anniversary date. If it were a week or so late you might call
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Roland Hutchinson filted:
[nq:2]There was an unbirthday party in the 1951 Disney version of "Alice in Wonderland." It doesn't seem to have been used, though, by Lewis Carroll.[/nq]
[nq:1]CONTRARIWISE! It's one of the Carrollian Humpty Dumpty's linguistic innovations (in Through the Looking Glass ): "They gave it ... said Humpty Dumpty. "I mean, what is an unbirthday present?" "A present gi
[nq:2]There was an unbirthday party in the 1951 Disney version of "Alice in Wonderland." It doesn't seem to have been used, though, by Lewis Carroll.[/nq]
[nq:1]CONTRARIWISE! It's one of the Carrollian Humpty Dumpty's linguistic innovations (in Through the Looking Glass ): "They gave it ... said Humpty Dumpty. "I mean, what is an unbirthday present?" "A present gi
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[nq:1]Hi, say my birthday is on May 30th, which is a sunday, but I really want to tear it up ... don't seem to find an answer, no matter how much more dictionaries I flip through. How do you call it?[/nq]
The only thing that comes to mind is "celebrate a day early". I don't know of a specific English term (BrE, at least) - which could, of course, be why you can't find one. But then I know a fa
The only thing that comes to mind is "celebrate a day early". I don't know of a specific English term (BrE, at least) - which could, of course, be why you can't find one. But then I know a fa
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[nq:1]Disney turned out some great stuff over the years (I can forgive an awful lot just for Fantasia* or *Dumbo), but the studio has hijacked a lot of our culture for its own profit.[/nq]
Disney died with Walt. The corpse just hasn't stopped twitching yet.
Cheers - Ian
Disney died with Walt. The corpse just hasn't stopped twitching yet.
Cheers - Ian
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[nq:1]Carroll was there first, but Disney took a brief colloquy and blew it into a major production number (complete with an STS-worthy song), so it's hardly surprising you want to give the blame whoops credit to Disney.[/nq]
Ah, found it. It's "un-birthday" in Carroll, and it's Humpty Dumpty who explains the concept to Alice.
The Mad Hatter and March Hare were elsewhere
at the time.
Ah, found it. It's "un-birthday" in Carroll, and it's Humpty Dumpty who explains the concept to Alice.
The Mad Hatter and March Hare were elsewhere
at the time.
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