[Lexicog] All Fools' Day

[Joseph T. Farquharson]

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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Joseph T. Farquharson
Doctoral Fellow
Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany

Telephone: +49 341-3550-326
E-mail: jtfarquharson at gmail.com
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Ph.D. candidate
Department of Language, Linguistics, and Philosophy
University of the West Indies
Mon campus, Kingston 7
Jamaica
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