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Less a question about the origins of the name (I've heard different versions, and can't be bothered finding out which is definitive), more a question about usage. Is the name only used in those parts of the Commonwealth where English is first language? Does anybody else call the 26th Boxing Day?
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USns normally call it the day after Christmas. Some may know it as St. Stephen's Day, which Pogophiles would know, from the carol Good King Sauerkraut, as "his feets uneven."
I've always understood it to be the first working day after Christmas rather than the first day after Christmas. Am I wrong?
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>'ve always understood it to be the first working day after Christmas rather than the first day after Christmas. Am I wrong?
Here, the 26th is officially called Boxing Day, and is a statutory holiday, unless it falls on a weekend, in which case the next working day is given as a holiday in its stead. That replacement holiday is not called Boxing Day though.
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Wrong again faldage. In the United States the 26th of December is not called the day after Christmas, in the United States the day after Christmas is called "My Birthday".
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we call it just "the second day of christmas". i suppose, it's because we like calling things what they really are
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Here is URL about it: [url]www.craigmarlatt.com/craig/canada/symbols_facts&lists/boxing_day.html[/uel]
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Happy Birthday Milo. Hope you get lots of presents. Please tell me you get special presents and not "doubles." Oh, ever done any boxing? Many happy returns of the day.
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Thanks Consuelo, thanks Wow, for remembering after my reminder that my birthday is today. I was afraid for a minute there that my gentle reminder was too subtle. And yes Wow, I boxed Golden Gloves for two years before the sport was discontinued at the Birmingham Boy's Club because it was discovered that jarring blows to the head damaged the brain. Lucky me I got out while I still had my wits about me. But then again how would I know?
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