Night before Halloween

[Dennis R. Preston]

>Detroit - Devil Night.


dInIs



>I'm curious to hear what the night before Halloween is
>called in your neck of the woods. I grew up in SE
>Pennsylvania and we called it "mischief night". My
>wife, from Bergen county, NJ, calls it "goosie night".
>I've also heard "hell night" and "cabbage night"
>(again, North Jersey).  Any others?
>
>Ed
>
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Dennis R. Preston
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic,
      Asian & African Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
e-mail: preston at msu.edu
phone: (517) 353-9290