After controversy over the sanitized carol swirled in the media and on the internet, Hallmark amended its response: “We never intend to offend or make political statements with our products and in hindsight, we realize we shouldn't have changed the lyrics on the ornament. And the double stitching on the neckline and sleeves add more durability to what is sure to be a favorite! A Traverse City, Michigan elementary school music teacher made the wrong choice by going with the latter. In all the hubbub over the sweater ornament, I’ve seen no comments questioning the grammatical appropriateness of Hallmark’s substitute wording, “Don we now our fun apparel.

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An alternative version of “Don we now our gay apparel” has been in circulation for some time: “Fill the mead-cup, drain the barrel” (John Hullah, The Song Book, 1884).

Apparently, Grant ad libbed the line, and director Howard Hawks left it in, which may explain how it got past the censors of Hays office who were intent on erasing sexuality from Hollywood movies. The OED recognizes fun as both a noun and a verb, and although it is silent on adjectival fun, it does offer a number of citations where fun is an adjective (for example, “American Eskimos are fun dogs to own,” s. The trend of wearing festively decorated Christmas sweaters to parties is all about fun, and this ornament is intended to play into that,” the statement said. By the 1930s in the United States, gay also began to acquire a slang sense referring to homosexuality.

The company ditched the traditional, “Don we now our gay apparel,” because in many contexts, gay means ‘homosexual,’ replacing it with “Don we now our fun apparel,” which Hallmark felt would be more acceptable to a general audience that includes prudish adults, impressionable children, and fundamentalists. Going gay: In “Bringing Up Baby” (1938), Cary Grant, playing a nerdy archeologist, loses his patience as he explains why after a long series of mishaps he’s wearing a woman’s dressing gown: “I just went gay, all of a sudden.

With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case. But the fact that gay has been embraced in recent years both by the gay community and by English speakers in general as a positive, non-taboo synonym for homosexual makes it even more likely for the word’s other primary sense, ‘bright, festive,’ to fall into disuse. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Read all Simone and Sipowicz investigate the murder of a gay bar owner during the Christmas holidays.When you sing “Deck the halls with boughs of holly,” we are referring to decorating the walls with branches of holly – with thorny leaves and bright red berries. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Kids may snicker at the word "gay" in a song, but it's only because they've been taught that it's taboo, which it really shouldn't be. As a former teacher, I think this would be a great book to add as extra reading not only of LGBT studies, but for all students to enable them recognize their place in history. The original “Deck the Hall,” a Welsh air with words by Thomas Oliphant, was published in 1862 as a song for New Year’s Eve.

Now that marriage equality is gaining momentum across the USA, there are more and more fashionable snowmen out there celebrating their very first Christmas together as a married couple. He published it in British Harmony Being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs The traditional Remains of those Originally Sung By the Bards of Wales. This would have been a great time to teach kids that "gay" isn't a bad word, that it shouldn't be used as a derogatory term, or at least throw a synonym lesson in there. Assistant superintendent Jane Mohr told a local news station, "The teacher made a poor decision and it should have never happened.

Yule or Yuletide was a pagan festival which was later absorbed into the Christian festival of Christmas. The trend of wearing festively decorated Christmas sweaters to parties is all about fun, and this ornament is intended to play into that, so the planning team decided to say what we meant: 'fun. gay’ still means happy -- joyful -- I refuse to let the word [be] hijacked by the same-sex relationship community,” one Facebook commenter wrote on the company’s wall Thursday. The third and fourth "Fa la la" lines sung to the words "Deck the Hall" differ from those sung or played in Wales, the fourth having a more arpeggiated melody in the Welsh version and the third differing in both melody and rhythm. The melody of "Deck the Hall" is taken from "Nos Galan" ("New Year's Eve"), a traditional Welsh New Year's Eve carol published in 1794, although it is much older.