User blog:TopherGopher/Halloween Translation

So, Halloween is a pretty deformed word... makes sense :P

So, it's technically called "All Hallows' Evening".

For those who don't know, "hallows" is another word for saints. Take that, people-who-say-Halloween-is-Satanic!

So, anyway, remove the "all". Hallows' Evening now.

By the way, evening is the long version of eve.

So, evening gets broken down into e'en. See where I'm getting at?

Hallows' E'en.

Remove the s'.

Hallow E'en.

Remove the space and lowercase "e'en"

Hallowe'en.

That's the real name. It's posh, though, so we break it down even further by removing the apostrophe.

Halloween.

So, there you go! Halloween means All Hallows' Evening. Learn something new each day.

~Toph