All over the world, especially in the United States, people have St.Pat parties or say Happy St. Patty's Day on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th. This is a huge mistake as will now be explained. When I was living in Ireland last year, I had a very good friend named Patrick AKA Paddy. When we first met I remember asking him, "Do you spell your name Patty or Paddy?" He gave me this evil look and said "Paddy." Then I received a lecture on the difference between Paddy and Patty.
Recently a friend sent me link to a very interesting web page called paddynotpatty.com or http://paddynotpatty.com/. Below are paragraphs taken from the website.
Each and every year millions of Irish, Irish-ish and amateur alcoholics are needlessly distracted from their Holy Tradition of drinking themselves into a stupor in the name of Saint Patrick, a Roman Briton slave holding the dubious honour of bringing Christianity to an island that would use it as another convenient excuse to blatter the hell out of each other for centuries.
The source of this terrible distraction?
An onslaught of half-hearted, dyed-green references to St. Patrick's Day as St. Patty's Day. It gnaws at them. It riles them up. It makes them want to fight… you know, more than usual.
It's Paddy, not Patty. Ever.
Saint Patrick's Day? Grand.
Paddy's Day? Sure, dead-on.
St. Pat's? Aye, if ye must.
St. Patty? No, ye goat!
Paddy is derived from the Irish, Pádraig, hence those mysterious, emerald double-Ds.
Patty is the diminutive of Patricia, or a burger, and just not something you call a fella.
There's not a sinner in Ireland that would call a Patrick, “Patty”. It's insulting. It's really as simple as that.
Also....
Shamrock isn't just any auld piece of clover: it's three-leafed. It ended up a symbol of Ireland because tradition holds that St. Patrick used shamrock to teach the Trinity.
The source of this terrible distraction?
An onslaught of half-hearted, dyed-green references to St. Patrick's Day as St. Patty's Day. It gnaws at them. It riles them up. It makes them want to fight… you know, more than usual.
It's Paddy, not Patty. Ever.
Saint Patrick's Day? Grand.
Paddy's Day? Sure, dead-on.
St. Pat's? Aye, if ye must.
St. Patty? No, ye goat!
Paddy is derived from the Irish, Pádraig, hence those mysterious, emerald double-Ds.
Patty is the diminutive of Patricia, or a burger, and just not something you call a fella.
There's not a sinner in Ireland that would call a Patrick, “Patty”. It's insulting. It's really as simple as that.
Also....
Shamrock isn't just any auld piece of clover: it's three-leafed. It ended up a symbol of Ireland because tradition holds that St. Patrick used shamrock to teach the Trinity.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Love Always,
Amanda
Some of the information contained in this blog came from the website paddynotpatty.com. I do not own any rights to this material.
Campbell, M. (2010) 'The Provisional Government of Paddy, Not Patty to the People of the New World', Paddy Not Paddy Blog [accessed 16 Mar 2012]
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