r/ireland • u/[deleted] • Mar 13 '16

Paddy not Patty

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u/Migeycan87 Latvia Mar 13 '16

The Yanks don't even celebrate Paddy's Day on the 17th, they do it the Saturday before.

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u/RobotsFromTheFuture Mar 13 '16 edited Mar 13 '16

To be fair nobody in the US cares about St. Patty's day except as an excuse to get drunk and drink mint milkshakes. It's New Years' Eve's trashy little brother.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '16

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u/RobotsFromTheFuture Mar 13 '16

In the us both are acceptable diminutive forms of the name Patrick.

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u/Schmoogly Mar 13 '16

Another thing where Americans bust in with "We are so numerous and resolute in our ignorance that both are now the accepted form"

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u/Oggie243 Mar 13 '16

I always love when Americans (and any other nation really) comes to this sub acting the big balls and immediately get shot down with semi relevant home truths.

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u/robspeaks Mar 13 '16

In the US, Donald Trump is the leading presidential candidate.

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u/lord_addictus Mar 13 '16

Can't stump the Trump.

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u/RobotsFromTheFuture Mar 13 '16

It's good that you know the candidates at least.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '16

Then apparently, in the US it's acceptable to be wrong.

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u/Oggie243 Mar 13 '16

Similarly Septic Tank is an acceptable term for an American but I don't daub July 4th " The Great Annual Septic Tank Wankfest"

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u/EIREANNSIAN Humanity has been crossed Mar 13 '16

Maybe you don't...

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u/RobotsFromTheFuture Mar 13 '16

Oh, now you're just being mean.

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u/relevantusername- Mar 13 '16

Then get the name of our national holiday right? "The wrong name caught on here so it's that now" get tae fuck lad.

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u/RobotsFromTheFuture Mar 13 '16

The official name is "Saint Patrick's Day," not "Saint Paddy's Day" Patrick can be shortened several ways, and one of those is Patty, so we are getting the name right, or at least, as right as we would be if we shortened it to Paddy or Pat. But really, except for some die-hard 10th generation Irish descendants in South Boston, it's mostly a celebration of alcohol consumption, not of Ireland.

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u/relevantusername- Mar 13 '16

None of the shortenings are Patty. Patty is short for Patricia. And the official name is Pádraig. Again, not interested with yanks Anglicised version.

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u/RobotsFromTheFuture Mar 13 '16

You seem interested.

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u/relevantusername- Mar 14 '16

Amn't I gas.

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u/RobotsFromTheFuture Mar 14 '16

Sorry, I don't speak French.

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