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Justin White wrote: > > Pope's Day is referred to > > exclusively as "Pope Day" on the page, and I'm wondering which usage is > > more common? The surviving broadsides from Boston in the late 1760s exclusively use the term "Pope-Night." So, with apologies to Al Young (we talked about this at one event), I use "Pope Night" as my primary term for the holiday in pre-Revolutionary Boston. J. L. Bell Boston1775@earthlink.net Unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution at <http://www.boston1775.net>. --
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