Twelfth Night was: Re: "Nice and" expression question.

[sistermagpie]

> Carol responds:
> 
> Twelfth Night breakfast? I'm confused. Twelfth Night would end at
> midnight, January 5/6, wouldn't it, as the Twelfth Day/Night (January
> 5) changed to Epiphany (January 6)? Or does she consider Twelfth Night
> as ending at sunrise on January 6 (Epiphany)? Either way, she seems to
> be celebrating Twelfth Night after it's over. Either that, or it's a
> Twelfth *Day* breakfast.

Magpie:
They have the breakfast on the morning of January 5th. So yeah, it's a 
Twelfth Day breakfast, but they call it Twelfth Night breakfast. I 
suppose the way people refer to December 24 as "Christmas Eve" and all 
of October 31st as "Halloween" even in the morning?

-m