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To: patent
If the story is accurate, we didn’t associate it with Potter, the fine folks canceling Christmas did when the chose the name of their new celebration.

Perhaps not but the original title of: "Christmas Canceled In English Town" read a little different than:

"City in England Cancels Christmas in Favor of Potter Holiday"

Luminos is from the Latin luminosis [I'm no Latin scholar, I did a search on Google.com], meaning bright - which as my faulty memory recalls is how it is used in the Potter series. But it goes back a lot further than it's use in Harry Potter.

44 posted on 11/06/2001 8:31:08 AM PST by Ward Smythe
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To: mike2right
Luminos is from the Latin luminosis [I'm no Latin scholar, I did a search on Google.com], meaning bright - which as my faulty memory recalls is how it is used in the Potter series. But it goes back a lot further than it's use in Harry Potter.
I did notice the title change, which I wouldn’t ordinarily do. (Though I might have put it in a parenthetical to clearly indicate it was my editorial.) Certainly, however, the article does make that connection. Anway, what does the luminos celebration go back to? What are its origins?

patent  +AMDG

47 posted on 11/06/2001 8:43:35 AM PST by patent
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