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The First Thanksgiving
- Katrien Vander Straeten
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» Katrien Vander Straeten - Canadian Thanksgiving
In response to Canadian Thanksgiving posted by DevorahStone:
Hi Devorah,
thank you for your input! It gives me a chance to flesh out my position.
I must admit, I am a bit of a stickler for historical roots and believe in the value of historical redundancy of things. For instance, I would hate it if people would decide to start spelling English phonetically: so much of the etymology of the words would be lost!
Well, in any case, I do acknowledge that Frobisher gave thanks. Of course, who wouldn't, after such a grueling sea voyage! And I do admire him as an explorer.
I would just like to reserve Thanksgiving with a capital T for a special kind of thanksgiving. If you want, you can read some of my more personal reasons for that in my blog entry http://customsholidays.suite101.com/blog...
Thanks again for sharing!
Katrien
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