As a result, when you “Deck the halls with boughs of holly,” you decorate a space with branches of the holly. Apparently, Grant ad libbed the line, and director Howard Hawks left it in, which may explain how it got past the censors of Hays office who were intent on erasing sexuality from Hollywood movies. This would have been a great time to teach kids that "gay" isn't a bad word, that it shouldn't be used as a derogatory term, or at least throw a synonym lesson in there.

When Oliphant wrote “don we now our gay apparel” he surely meant something like ‘brightly colored, festive’ clothing. The trend of wearing festively decorated Christmas sweaters to parties is all about fun, and this ornament is intended to play into that, so the planning team decided to say what we meant: 'fun. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism. Beginning with a look at the subcultural world of gay men in the early part of this century -- particularly in New York and London -- this fascinating book analyzes the trends in dress adopted by gay men as well as the challenge gay style has made to mainstream mens fashion.Now that marriage equality is gaining momentum across the USA, there are more and more fashionable snowmen out there celebrating their very first Christmas together as a married couple. After controversy over the sanitized carol swirled in the media and on the internet, Hallmark amended its response: “We never intend to offend or make political statements with our products and in hindsight, we realize we shouldn't have changed the lyrics on the ornament.

The OED recognizes fun as both a noun and a verb, and although it is silent on adjectival fun, it does offer a number of citations where fun is an adjective (for example, “American Eskimos are fun dogs to own,” s. The melody of "Deck the Hall" is taken from "Nos Galan" ("New Year's Eve"), a traditional Welsh New Year's Eve carol published in 1794, although it is much older. A range of t-shirts sold by independent artists featuring a huge variety of original designs in sizes XS-5XL; availability depending on style. Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive.Apparently the change was made because kids kept giggling at the proper lyric, and the school has backed down and gone back to the regular lyric. Do you know how to improve your language skills❓ All you have to do is have your writing corrected by a native speaker! The importance of the body to gay culture is addressed, from the physique magazines of the 1950s, through to tattooing and body piercing, and their origins in the SM scene. Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. The word “gay” is a homonym (a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning).

But the fact that gay has been embraced in recent years both by the gay community and by English speakers in general as a positive, non-taboo synonym for homosexual makes it even more likely for the word’s other primary sense, ‘bright, festive,’ to fall into disuse.Hallmark—“when you care enough to send the very best”—has caused a stir by taking the “gay” out of Christmas.

As early as Chaucer’s day, gay could mean ‘lascivious,’ and by the sixteenth century it could refer to someone who was dissolute, wanton, flamboyant, or uninhibited. The phrase " 'Tis the season", from the lyrics, has become synonymous with the Christmas and holiday season, [3] [4] 'tis being an archaic contraction of "it is". If you're going to change everything kids giggle at, you might want to start renaming Lake Titicaca and baseball player Albert Pujols while you're at it. The principal, Chris Parker also told reporters "There was a different way to handle that, and a different decision that could have been made". The OED cites this as an example of an early homosexual reference for the term, though it also cites earlier uses by Gertrude Stein and Noel Coward dated 1922 and 1929, respectively.Although some early sources state that Oliphant's words were a translation of Talhaiarn's Welsh original, [9] this is not the case in any strict or literal sense. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case.