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From: "Ingmar Roerdinkholder" <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.12.07 (02) [E/German]

In Dutch we call that "Sint Juttemis", or "als Pasen en Pinksteren op één
dag valt" (when Easter and Whitsuntide are celebrated the same day". Of
course, there is no real saint called Jutte(mis)...

Ingmar

Joachim Kreimer-de Fries:
Anyway, it's funny to find the "Süntnümmersdag" and come to such
ambiguity while talking about Santa Claus...
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