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Permalink Reply by Mr. Anderson on March 18, 2011 at 4:20pm

I'd never heard of it being called Patty's Day. Is this solely an American thing? And why?

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Permalink Reply by Dave G on March 18, 2011 at 4:32pm

Paddy is a common nickname for Patrick.

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Permalink Reply by Mr. Anderson on March 18, 2011 at 5:00pm

Patty, not Paddy. I've definitely heard it called Paddy's Day (we use that here ourselves and we're often referred to as Paddy's ourselves lol) but never saw Patty before.

Seeing Patty makes me think it's trying to feminise it which I don't really get. If it's short for Patrick, I don't really get it either tbh.

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Permalink Reply by Becca on March 18, 2011 at 5:43pm

Calling it St. Patty's Day isn't feminizing it... it's just a silly shortened version of Patrick... and Paddy and Patty when verbalized sounds exactly the same so for me at least spelling doesn't matter.

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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on March 18, 2011 at 4:33pm

I've often heard it referred to as that, and if I am not mistaken, people usually spell it with two Ds instead of two Ts, though that doesn't make much sense to do so. Who knows how these things get started, but I do believe it is fairly common. You often hear ads saying "Come down to our St. Paddy's Day event and get a free...."

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Permalink Reply by Becca on March 18, 2011 at 5:41pm

I always spell it Patty's because the short version of Patrick is Pat.

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Permalink Reply by Mr. Anderson on March 18, 2011 at 7:40pm

Regarding the verbalising of Paddy and Patty above, I think depending on your accent, they aren't necessarily alike.

I've never seen or heard of any Patrick having Patty as a nickname tbh. Paddy comes from two areas that I know; Paddy being the nickname for Patrick and more relevantly Pádraig.

It's also the slang term for an Irishman but originated from the British as a derogatory term for us, most likely taking exception with our language (use of Pádraig)

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Permalink Reply by Natasha Kenny on March 18, 2011 at 5:46pm

I was in the parade.Supposed to be riding a horse but they didn't bring him because he's headstrong.Got into the cart instead which was way better than walking.Somebody threw a piece of Silly String at one of the horses.The horse got a fright as it went by his eye and the boy riding him fell off.

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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on March 18, 2011 at 5:54pm

Oh noes! When I was a kid I was thrown from a horse once. Scared the bejeezus out of me, too.

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Permalink Reply by Jtrottier on March 18, 2011 at 8:16pm

Made Corned beef and cabbage and drank Irish red and some Irish Death and Jamison's at an Irish pub. It is Get Drunk Like an Irish Sop Day after all. Bit of a hangover today, though but well worth it, IMO.

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Permalink Reply by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on March 18, 2011 at 8:31pm

We went for a few pints of Guinness in Dublin and hatched a plan to breed thousands of snakes and set them free on the night of the 16th of March next year..............I recall someone asked "What did St. Patrick say when he was driving the snakes out of Ireland" ? Answer - "Are ye okay in the back there lads..." ha

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on March 19, 2011 at 12:53am

Worked. Went home.

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