Lots to celebrate today
We’ve got lots of things to celebrate today… (Monday, October 9th)
Canadian Thanksgiving
Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October and is a time for giving thanks for a successful harvest.
Día Mundial del Correo
I don’t know much about this, but apparently it’s celebrated in a bunch of countries.
Leif Erikson Day
Leif Erikson Day is a celebration of the first European landing on the American continent.
Che Guevara’s death
Socialist Che Guevara was executed for trying to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
Independence of Guayaquil
Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil proclaimed independence from Spain.
Día Nacional Valencià
I don’t know much about this celebration.
You don’t need an apostrophe in your subject line for the blog today.
“Lots to celebrate today” is grammatically correct.
This is just a short comment , since we all have our foibles. I know I have several! Using an apostrophe to indicate a plural seems to be a rather common error now. A particularly good article about apostrophe usage, which you may enjoy reading, may be found at .
tomisimo
You’re right. Thanks for pointing that out.
It sounds like you were posting a site for me to look at, but somehow it got munched. Could you post it again?
i need help, i took spanish and i thought the word for pot as in “put your cigarette butts in the POT” was pote… please someone correct me!
tomisimo
Hi Cole,
As far as I know, pote means pot, jug, jar, vase, flowerpot, vessel, can etc. You might try the forums too, if you want more responses.
I don’t know where the URL went in my message above about apostrophes. It is
http://tranchant.plus.com/notes/apostrophe
My thanks to Tomisimo for making the correction so quickly.
tomisimo
Thanks for the link. That site has a very comprehensive summary of the ins and outs of apostrophe usage.
i cannot speak or write hardly any spanish, however there is a spanish boy i am courting who can speak english but i thought he would appreciate it if i had a go at writing to him in spanish. So i was wondering if theres anything at all you think could help me with this or any suggestions you have for the letter (with translations) it would be very much apreciated. Thankyou for taking the time to read this comment.
tomisimo
Hi Chrissy,
You’ve got a good goal to learn some Spanish so you can write to your friend. But it really depends on how bad you want to learn Spanish. Your best bet might be to learn just a few words, and use them among English. Because if you’re not prepared to really give what it takes to learn a language, it’ll end up being not very fruitful.
Tell us a few words you’d like to be able to say in Spanish I’ll help you out.