• tacosanonymous
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    2 days ago

    Why is it that only people that live right on a coastline use some variation of “day between two fasts?”

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      It’s Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Wednesday was also a fast day in early christianity. This disappeared from Western tradition, but still observed in Eastern Ortodoxy.