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What do we say … and why: Mother’s Day or Mothers’ Day? Is it the same or different in the other languages you know?
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Sorry, i have no idea – here in France it’s Victory day but i think a lot of mums were happy that day.
ps Mothering Sunday?
Do they do Mother’s Day in France? Or Father’s Day?
they do! la fête des mères last sunday of may unless that clashes with Pentecostal? sunday, then it’s a week later.
Krissie tries to be in England for theirs (she was) Germany for theirs/yours (she is), then here four theirs/ours but personally i think that’s pushing her luck.
fête des pères seems to be the third sunday in June.
Minnie asked me why there isn’t a children’s day, i suggested it might be Christmas.
8 people said “Mother’s Day”, and I think most cultures single out the one mother, “my own”.
2 people said “Mothers’ Day”.