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Blog EntryExtra Day!!!Feb 27, '08 8:51 PM
for everyone

Hello dear friends and Happy Thursday! Tomorrow is 29 February 2008!! Yeap, it’s a leap year, so we have one extra day in four years!! Woohoo!! So tell me... what's your plan?


Did you know?

 

Most years that can be divided evenly by 4 are leap years. (For example, 2004 divided by 4 = 501: Leap year!)

Exception: Century years are not leap years unless they can't be evenly divided by 400 (For example, 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600 and 2000, which are divisible by 400, were).


Leap Year has been the traditional time that women can propose marriage. It started in the 5th century in Ireland when some women complained that they had to wait "too long" for their men to propose. But due to the stricter rules then, women were only allowed to pop the question to their dream guys on one day after four years. That day was Feb 29. Fines were levied if the proposal was refused by the man; compensation ranged from a kiss to £1 to a silk gown, in order to soften the blow.....

 
According to English law then, Feb 29 was ignored and had no legal status. Folks assumed that traditions would also have no status on that day.


There is a Greek superstition that claims couples have bad luck if they marry during a leap year. Apparently one in five engaged couples in Greece avoid planning their wedding during a leap year.


According to astrologers, those born under the sign of Pisces on Feb29 have unusual talents and personalities reflecting their special status.


www.timeanddate.com
scienceworld.wolfram.com
www.infoplease.com
www.chiff.com


Leap Words


Listed here are some words the Oxford English Dictionary missed....

 
· Leaper - A person born on Leap Day

· Leapette - Female Leapean

· Leapster - Male Leapean

· Leapdom - www.leapdaybabies.com

· Leapy - Another word for a Leap Day Baby

· Leapling - A newborn Leap Day Baby

· Leapness - Regarding the essence of our birthday

· Leapier - Something done by a Leapy is Leapier than that same something done by a non-Leapy.

· Leapingly - As in Sincerely

· Leapest Regards - Deeper than Deepest Regards

· Leap On! - It's like saying Right On!

· Leapify - To make Leap Day oriented

· Leapeans - People born on Leap Day

· Leapification - What happens to those born on Leap Day

· Leapfully - As in Respectfully

· Leapitude - The attitude of a Leap Day Baby about their Leapness

· Leapio! - Like Ciao or Aloha or Goodbye, See Ya,Leapio!

· Leapcentric - One who collects Leap Year oriented items.

· Leaprechaun - An Irish Leaper

· Leapophile - One who collects Leap Year related stuff

· Leapophilia - A fondness for collecting things related to Leap Year

· Leapophobia - Fear of Leap Day Babies

· Leap-Couple - Two Leapies married to each other

· Leap-Twins - Twins born on Leap Day

· Leaptwin - Someone born the same year and as close to the same time as possible

· Leapometer - How to tell if something is Leapy enough. Leapometer says this website is highly Leapified.

· Leapicious - Something that is good

· Leapist - Someone really into their Leapness

· Leapship - A friendship or relationship between 2 Leapies.

· Leapathon - a way of lookingfor Leapies; like having a  Leapathon on the radio or TV announcing the search for people born on Feb 29. Encourage your city to have a
Leapathon!

· Leapless - Anyone not born on Feb 29.

· Leapination - What in Leapination is that?

· Leaparium - A chat room for Leapeans

· Leapicide - People who celebrate on Feb 28 and Mar 1 as well as Feb29!

· Leapenvy - Jealousy from not being born on Feb29

· LeapGram - The Grand Mother of a Leap Day Baby

· LeapGramp - The Grand Father of a Leap Day Baby

· Leapery - This could be where a Leap Day Baby hangs out, or lives. It could also be where Leap Day Babies are born.
"Leaplings are born in the Leapery."

· Leapover - From THE PEACOCK'S PROMISE by Nancy Lucas, referring to a sleepover birthday party for a Leap Day Baby.

· Leaptacular - as in spectacular

· Leaptastic! - an amazing Leap Year related thing


Taken from www.leapzine.com 



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