Do you have names for every day in your country? In Sweden we have a couple of names for every day. Today it’s Matilda day. That reminded me of an old song I heard often as a kid.
I know another Matilda song too, Waltzing Matilda, the inofficial national hymn of Australia.
Then I know the Matilda movie from the Roald Dahl novel.
Do you know any other Matilda songs or anything else with Matilda attached?
Anna
I don’t. What is the significance of Matilda on this date?
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Nothing. Tomorrow it’s a new day with a new name. But the idea is nice. We get a reason to celebrate the people with the names that is attached with a day. Hey it’s you name-day, congrats! Is what we say.
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That’s awesome! When it’s Tony Day, let me know! 😃
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January 17. You can check this link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_name_day_list_of_2001
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I missed it?!? Somebody should’ve made me a cake or something! Dammit!! 😃
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Exactly! I think you should mention that we celebrate with cake in Sweden and you should have one 😄🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰
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I couldn’t agree more! 😃😃
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I propose the book Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones, where Matilda is the main character. My post:https://rivella49.wordpress.com/filmsbooksed/great-expectations/mr-pip6/
Thanks for your post. Best regards Martina
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Thanks for the link. Good post. I think I will check that book or movie out. Sounds interesting.
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In Portugal we dont have that tradition… I heard about it for the first time when I was living in Skopje, Macedonia 🙂 wish you a great Matilda day! PedroL
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Thank you 🙂 I found a link with the Swedish name list
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_name_day_list_of_2001
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eheh thanks for sharing 🙂 PedroL
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there´s something wrong, on my birthday the name is Tekla and Tea and not PedroL eheh 🙂 cheers
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Yea, it should be Pedrol on that day instead!
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🙂
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