[Lexicog] Re: All Fools' Day

[f_j_mills]

Joseph,
Have a look at the article on this website:
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=483414
Jon Mills

--- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, "Joseph T. Farquharson" 
<jtfarquharson at ...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone?
> 
> Is anyone in the English-speaking world familiar with the 
term "Tom Fool('s)
> Day" as a reference to April 1st (All Fools' Day) when people play 
pranks on
> each other? I want to know if it exists anywhere else or if it is a
> Jamaicanism.
> 
> I will be glad for any information received.
> 
> Joseph
> 
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> Department of Linguistics
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> Jamaica
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