Quote Originally Posted by McNulty View Post
I don't mean to be a stickler here BUT....
Every time I see someone say or write "St. Paddy's" day I shiver. The term "Paddy", being a derogatory, demeaning and downright racist remark, is being furthered as a connotation for a people by the uneducated and the ill-informed. Commercial interests like to play up those facts and further their interests by preying on that mis-information. Unfortunately, too many people feel the need to perpetuate the myth of the day. The day was set to honor the memory of a great man and the special things that he accomplished during his life. Wearing a kilt on St. Patrick's Day is a fit way to honor that person. We wear our kilts with pride, so why soil the same "fabric" by associating ourselves with and supporting this predjudicial terminology. It doesn't take that much more time to say or write St. Patrick.
Nulty
Caveat: I do not say NOR imply that any, here on this forum, are uneducated or ill-informed. T.E.
Seriously? I use Paddy simply as a nickname. Patrick, Padraig, Pat, Pad, Patty, Paddy. It's a phonetical spelling of a nickname to me. I've never found it offensive. Can we please not turn this into some kind of PC led witch hunt?