[Introspective] Happy what?

[Robert Halton]

Yes its the scottish equivalent of New Years.

On 12/14/06, Gilles G. <gilles.gen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2006/12/14, Gilles G. <gilles.gen at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Just received my Christmas card (nice Fundamental design) but I need
> > your help : it states "Merry Christmas and happy hogmanay".
> >
> > Uh? That last word is absent from my non-native speaker vocabulary...
>
> ...but not from a decent dictionary, which I didn't think I had here
> in the office (Internet might well have been my friend here). So it's
> ok, I have learnt a new word, I'm happy.
>
> More appropriate to wish a happy Hogmanay than a happy New Year I think...
>
> It says it's Scottish? Any confirmation?
>
> Gilles
>
> --
> "I pretend, I'm there again
> I close my eyes and see you better than before
> Then I feel you touch me and it's 1984"
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