David Sedgwick wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 9:27 am
A reminder from the vicar of my church:
"Easter starts on Sunday [17th April] (not before)."
Today, Saturday 16th April, is Holy Saturday, the last day of Holy Week. Easter Saturday is next Saturday, 23rd April, the last day of Easter Week.
The vicar is quite right of course, but I am fairly sure that the majority would take Easter Saturday as the day after Good Friday. As 'correct' language is often determined by general usage, I wonder how long it may take for Easter Saturday to be deemed the day before Easter Sunday. Similarly 'the body was
laying on the ground' is now such a common usage that it may eventually be accepted as the norm.
To celebrate the reawakening of pedants here, I give you Brendan O'Neill in a recent BBC Radio 5 Live interview about 'Partygate'.
'A lot of people
purposefully broke lockdown rules'.
I think he meant 'purposely'.
As a journalist, chief politics writer of 'Spiked', he should know better, but one can forgive slips on live broadcasts.