How to pronounce“saturnalia”in English
The real story of Christmas trees involves a lost Grand Duchy, 1840 influencers, and the unlikely birth of a custom you can see from space.
Christmas tree like stuff has been going on for a while, as imagined in this picture of the pagan Roman Saturnalia.
But by the 1500s and 1600s, it had become a Germanic custom that included this song about how awesome fir trees are.
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Alternative letter-case form of saturnalia.
“It was odd that the literary festival should be turned into a Donnybrook fair, but so it was when I was a boy, and the tents and the shows and the crowds on the Common were to the promiscuous many the essential parts of the great occasion. They had been so for generations, and it was only gradually that the Cambridge Saturnalia were replaced by the decencies and solemnities of the present sober anniversary.”
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