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    Is there any truth in the story I recently have heard that the English 'Mother Day' tradition originally derived from a misunderstood 'Modder' or 'Moder' day, which was a tribute to some local Rev. Mod(d)er?

    Question #33503. Asked by discoverer. (May 12 03 6:52 PM)


    Baloo55th

    		None whatever. Mothers' Day is commercial, like the American one, and Mothering Sunday is when apprentices and girls in service went home to be mothered - as they lived at their place of work the rest of the year.

    May 12 03, 7:14 PM

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