"Penn State town limits booze on St. Patty's Day"
Another lousy headline, this one from yahoo news;
a common error, but the wrong word nonetheless:
Folks, it's St. Patrick's Day -- or St. Paddy's Day, for short.
Now, if you're a hardcore femme, and celebrating St. Patricia's Day on March 17, well o.k. then...
but if you're just too lazy to bother getting it right...
then off to the paddy wagon* with you.
(You see how these seemingly little word things relate? Can we just take a bit more care out there, please? Words do matter, and distinctions indeed can save/cost a life...)
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* the "patty wagon" sounds like a Schwan's truck somewhere out there, hawking peppermint mints.
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