This Wednesday we are saying Yes to Leap Year! In some countries Leap Year means girls propose to guys! What do you think of that? Here is some background to this Leap Year tradition, from www.tourclare.com.
“The right of every women to propose on 29th February each leap year, goes back many hundreds of years to when the leap year day had no recognition in English law (the day was ‘lept over’ and ignored, hence the term ‘leap year’).
It was considered, therefore, that as the day had no legal status, it was reasonable to assume that traditions also had no status.
Consequently, women who were concerned about being ‘left on the shelf’ took advantage of this anomaly and proposed to the man they wished to marry.
It was also thought that since the leap year day corrected the discrepancy between the calendar year of 365 days and the time taken for the Earth to complete one orbit of the sun (365 days and 6 hours), it was an opportunity for women to correct a tradition that was one-sided and unjust.”
Has anyone seen the movie Leap Year? Tomorrow would be an appropriate day to watch it!
Love,