Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Thoroughness Challenge



A Brief History of Presidents Day


The Thoroughness Challenge is a post consisting of paragraphs that contain spelling and/or grammatical errors. The paragraphs with the errors corrected and highlighted in red can be found at the end of the post.

Note: The purpose of the Challenge is thoroughness. You're only looking for errors in spelling and/or grammar. Names and places will NOT be misspelled, nor will there by any changes to punctuation or sentence structure. In addition, if there is a word that may have more than one accepted spelling, those also will not be changed.


Your Challenge today is: A Brief History of Presidents Day, and contains 8 errors. Good Luck!

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If you live in the United States than you will know that yesterday was Presidents Day; also known as Washington’s Birthday. Presidents Day is a federal holiday in the US and is celebrated on the third Monday in Febuary.

The federal holiday titled as Washington’s Birthday, was originally implimented by the United States Congress in 1880 for the goverment offices in the District of Columbia, but then expanded in 1885 to include all federal offices.

As it was the first federal holiday to honor an American citizen, the holiday was originally celebrated on George Washington’s actual birthday – February 22nd. It was on January 1, 1971 that the day got shifted to the third Monday in Febuary.

That date than fell between February 15th and the 21st, which would never actualy fall on Washington’s Birthday. A draft of the Uniform Holiday Bill of 1968 would have had the holiday renamed as Presidents Day, to honor both Washington and Lincoln.

That proposal unfortunately failed in commitee at that time, so the name Washington’s Birthday was kept. The first attempt to create the day as a Presidents Day came in 1951; however, it wasn't until the mid-1980’s that the term Presidents Day began being used.


Now, let's see how thorough you are!

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If you live in the United States then you will know that yesterday was Presidents Day; also known as Washington’s Birthday. Presidents Day is a federal holiday in the US and is celebrated on the third Monday in February.

The federal holiday titled as Washington’s Birthday, was originally implemented by the United States Congress in 1880 for the goverment offices in the District of Columbia, but then expanded in 1885 to include all federal offices.

As it was the first federal holiday to honor an American citizen, the holiday was originally celebrated on George Washington’s actual birthday – February 22nd. It was on January 1, 1971 that the day got shifted to the third Monday in February.

That date then fell between February 15th and the 21st, which would never actually fall on Washington’s Birthday. A draft of the Uniform Holiday Bill of 1968 would have had the holiday renamed as Presidents Day, to honor both Washington and Lincoln.

That proposal unfortunately failed in committee at that time, so the name Washington’s Birthday was kept. The first attempt to create the day as a Presidents Day came in 1951; however, it wasn't until the mid-1980’s that the term Presidents Day began being used.


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10 comments:

  1. Wow, you really know how to get a brain working!Surprisingly, I did much better than I expected. Thanks again for another helpful post!

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  2. Great challenge! And what an interesting post, love history, although I tend to follow European History more than American and I never knew that about Presdident's Day. Thanks for another great post!

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  3. Good one, Crystal! Committee is always a tough one for me...what a weird-looking word!

    Elizabeth
    Mystery Writing is Murder

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  4. That was fun, even as tired as I am. So, how sad is this I found the first February but not the second!

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  5. Great challenge as always. The bit of history was interesting too. I caught myself getting into the history and forgetting to look for misspelled words. But, I did better than usual.

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  6. Thanks for this challenge. I admit, I didn't catch 'em all, but I did fairly well, and I appreciate the exercise. It's always good to keep in practice.

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  7. Sounds like everyone did great! I was sure I'd catch a few of you with the then/than ones! I do have some very thorough followers, however!

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  8. I usually get caught on "committee" - never seem to remember if it's one or two t's, but I'm always on top of my game when I visit THIS blog, lol - so yeah - got all 8.

    The Old Silly

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  9. The word that I used to struggle with was accommodate. This post is like home from home for an English teacher! You've missed your vocation.Thanks for visiting my blog. Please come back any time... as long as you don't look too closely at my typing accuracy...

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