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on who's authority did we change the 12 days of Christmas ?

by tryinhere
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The twelve days in the song are the twelve days starting Christmas day, or in some traditions, the day after Christmas (December 26) (Boxing Day or St. Stephen's Day, as being the feast day of St. Stephen Protomartyr) to the day before Epiphany, or the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6, or the Twelfth Day). Twelfth Night is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twe...hristmas_(song)

Doing some work on my site the other day and prepping for what i thought were the 12 days of Christmas, with some auto posts, but on research i found the 12 real days of Christmas start on Christmas day (or the 26th) not the 12 days before Christmas, as i had thought.

But it seems i am not alone with other marketers also promoting the 12 days of Christmas, to a point even retail seem to be on the 12 days before as well, so where in society's time line did we commercialise and change the rules or is it just me being a lard head again ? and everybody else knew this but me ?

  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    OK, HOW did the dreidel song get in a christmas medley? Tryinhere, In the US, the whole deal is often ignored and/or forgotten. So you are certainly NOT the only one. HECK, although I CAN understand THAT, as the only reference is often the SONG "twelve days of Christmas", I am ASTOUNDED at how much myth is going around. I mean things you would think nobody would dare lie about, etc..., because you would think everyone would believe that everyone knows about it.

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Worner
    I have a better question, how did we go from happy christmas to happy holidays(pffft)
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