[Sca-cooks] Celebrating April Fools day
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Thu Jul 31 08:04:41 PDT 2008
My copy of the OED shows the first written use of April Fool as being from
1687. This predates the official adoption of the Gregorian Calendar by the
Britian and its territories in 1752. It doesn't eliminate the possibility
that April Fool is tied to the changes brought by the Gregorian Calendar,
but it suggests that the original usage may be more tied to April being the
first month of Spring and seen as fickle and changeable than to the calendar
change. It's an interesting puzzle.
Bear
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