Tag: solar calendar

Triskaidekaphilia

Post author By White Zulu
Post date March 14, 2015
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Many of you fear the combination of calendar date and weekday that is Friday the 13th. It’s part of a much older fear of the number 13 in general, about which I have a simple theory (shared by many others). Before I do that, I need to make it clear that not only do I […]

Tags 13, lunar calendar, solar calendar, triskaidekaphilia, triskaidekaphobia

Linguistics / ubuLimi

uNcibijane

Post author By White Zulu
Post date January 1, 2013
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Happy New Year to everyone! Ngithemba ukuthi ningene kahle kunyaka omusha (I hope you entered the new year well). There is some linguistic and anthropological interest in this day, when looked at from the perspective of isiZulu – mainly because of its special place as a borrowed custom. The isiZulu word for New Year is […]

Tags Afrikaans, isiZulu, lunar calendar, New year, northern hemisphere, Nuwe Jaar, solar calendar, Southern Hemisphere, uNcibijane