where does the 'nun' come from when people say 'nun night'?
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your ma said to your dad nun for you tonight and said it that many times she shortend it to nun night hee hee
141560
Nobody actually knows where that phrase comes from.  There is an urban legend about where it came from that can be found here: http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.htm
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Are you asking what this means or where it comes from or what?\n\nWell, I'll do my best.\n\nIt means do what you want to, as long as it doesn't harm others or yourself.\n\nIt comes from the Wiccan Rede, which states the basic rules for being a White Witch, or Wiccan.
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Oh Holy Night\n\nhttp://www.familieswithpurpose.com/oholynight.html
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My guess is that the saying evolved from the expression "Holy Lord!" or "Holy God!".  Over time, language has become more coarse and somebody felt like tossing in the ol' S-word instead of "God" and it stuck.
61934
During Christmas  we celebrate "Simbang Gabi" or Night masses - which are held for 9 nights before Christmas. It culminates in a Dawn mass to welcome the birth of Jesus.\n\nWe love having statues of Mary in her different roles, i.e. Mary the Immaculate, The Black Virgin, The Virgin of Guadalupe, The Virgin of the Sea, Mary the Mother, Mary Queen of Heaven, etc. Mostly she is venerated as guardian/patroness in every Roman Catholic Church.
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Cappuccino\n\nNamed after the color of the robes of the Capuchin monks, which, like the drink, are light chocolaty brown. The word is from Italian Cappuccino, which is the Italian name for the monks' order. The Capuchins themselves got their name from the hooded robe they wear; cappuccio means 'hood' (a diminutive form of Late Latin cappa 'head covering, cloak')
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1- The second nun thinks the first nuns means she came sexually from the bumping and shaking from the sobble stone\n\n2-??\n\n3- Helen talks with her hands so she is not "heard" when you can not see her hands\n\n4- It means Severus Snape has a small penis that does not stick out futher than his nose hence why he hurts his nose rather than is erection\n\n5- Silly honestly but that the ethnics do not see or understand the purpose of the dog and are throwing them in the air rather than getting the dog to fetch the shot ducks\n\n6-??\n\n7- The beeper would be lost in the rolls of fat and then then she could not feel the pager or hear it so needs someyhing huge .
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Halloween originated as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with Irish, Scots, Welsh and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.\n\nThe term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before "All Hallows' Day" (also known as "All Saints' Day"). The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints Day from May 13 to November 1. In Ireland, the name was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldom used today, it is still a well-accepted label.
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Sorry you've had such rubbish answers. \n\nI'm usually quite good at this sort of thing, but I'm afraid I can't find any info on the origins of this phrase.\n\nI hope someone more knowledgeable answers you soon!
1455
Its analogous to "every which way" or "as much/often as possible."  According to lastsource.com (which is linked below in cached form, as I was having trouble accessing the site), the phrase originated in Rome during the early days of Christianity:  In order to encourage Church-goers to show up to Mass on time, the parish priest would have the last person to arrive beaten mercilessly the other 6 days of the week.
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Speculation about its origin is found in Eric Partridge's "Dictionary of Catch Phrases":\n\n"'Come up and see my etchings' was, perhaps, orig. a US students' catchphrase that rapidly gained a much wider currency: throughout the US, thence in Can. and UK and, prob. indicative of US influence in 1943-5, Aus. Formerly I suspected that it was prompted by [Mae West's] 'come up and see me sometime!'; yet it could well have been the other way about. In his letter . . . Prof. S. H. Monk writes: "I am certain that I knew this sentence by the midtwenties. Actually I knew no one who had a collection of etchings or who was suave enough to seduce a young thing in this manner. But the phrase certainly floated in and out of cartoons and jokes. To me, it has an 1890-ish or Edwardian tone, and I suspect that it existed in 'sophisticated' urban society before it ever reached me. I think that this can still sometimes be heard, but it is definitely 'corny'."\nPerhaps confirmatory of Prof. Monk's shrewd remarks is the fact that in Susannah Centlivre's comedy, 'The Man's Bewitched' (1710), Act III, where Belinda, Maria, Constant and Lovely are in the study, and Lovely exclaims, 'Interrogating! Nay, then 'tis proper to be alone; there is a very pretty Collection of Prints in the next Room, Madam, will you give me leave to explain them to you?' Maria answers, 'Any Thing that may divert your Love--Subject.'\nIt should, however, be noted that this catchphrase perhaps derives from Surreyside melodrama--the villain enticing the innocent maiden."
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I don't think it's super common, but it DOES happen. I work with a woman who was a full-fledged nun for a while. She eventually left -- said she was always getting in trouble for not being meek enough. I think some people WANT to be a nun or a priest but wind up not being able to make it work.
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the origin of the word is spanish. the word comes from combining two words Mary and Ann.\nanother explanation is-MARIANA:  Latinized form of Marian, "bitter."  Variant, Marianna, exists.\n\nso it is a compound name combining Marie and Anne- the meaning is Bitter Grace.
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It literally means, "saints."  It is often used in New Mexico in reference to statues of saints.  A santero is the artist who makes these statues.
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fortnight is a variation of a middle english word called fortenight, which literally means fourteen nights
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It is from the Hebrew Amayn meaning "let it be so".  The longer version of this would be Kayn Yihi Ratzon.\n\nIn Jewish practice, it isn't something you would say after your own prayer, but rather something you would say after hearing someone else's prayer. So it acts as an affirmation that you agree with what the other person has said.