#WhatGrindsMyGears - #FloatingWeekdayHolidays (Thanksgiving on a #FloatingThursday, Easter on a #FloatingSunday, some other religious holidays on #FloatingWednesday #FloatingFriday #FloatingSaturday #FloatingMonday #FloatingTuesday)
I was doing my Birthday-Cohort thing for November 26 (which is 'the day after Thanksgiving Day' in 2021). I usually match it with 'a holiday that also falls on the same date every year (like birthdays & anniversaries do), but it seemed like 'every holiday I looked at' (listed below) fell on "the day after Thanksgiving" (the fourth Friday, if not the first Friday (on years when the fourth Thursday of November is the last day of November)).
'Those kind of holidays' (the 'nth "weekday" of the month'-holidays) are called #Floating Weekday Holidays, as Calculator.net explains in a report linked through 'that word' below. I'll get to 'listing a few of those holidays' beneath the Subscribe-bar; but first I want to understand that word better. And I find you understand words better if you look at 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum)
The word “Floating (\ #Float #Floatation #Floater #Floated #Floats #Afloat)” is built on ancient words that mean "to Flow."
A Few of 'those holidays':
- First, the 'Friday after American Thanksgiving'
- Maize Day
- Native American Heritage Day
- Black Friday (so-called for the air-pollution of all the shoppers driving out for the good bargains), a.k.a. Acadian Day
- National Day of Listening
- Flossing Day
- Indiana's celebration of Lincoln's Birthday
- You're Welcomegiving Day
- And then MIS tells us most of the other days:
Holiday Occurrence Martin Luther King Day3rd Monday of January 3rd Monday of February Ash Wednesday47 Days before Easter Daylight Saving Starts 2 a.m. 2nd Sunday in March Palm SundaySunday before Easter Good FridayFriday before Easter Resurrection Sunday (a.k.a. Easter)1st Sunday after 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox Arbor DayLast Friday in April 2nd Sunday in May 3rd Saturday in May Last Monday in May 3rd Sunday in June 1st Monday in September 2nd Monday in October Daylight Saving Ends 2 a.m. First Sunday in November Election Daythe Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November
The religious holidays (I stumbled-upon while searching for the above) are Jewish holidays & Hindu festivals which--like Christianity's "Easter" (which I probably changed to 'Resurrection Sunday' above)--are usually set to the Lunar Calendar.
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