“one ox, two oxen. one fox, two foxen.”
jenny lawson
Happy Chinese New Year in the year of the Ox- 2021!
Celebrated at the second new moon following the Winter Solstice,
Chinese New Year is also known as the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival.
According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar,
this festival marks the end of winter and the beginning of a long-awaited spring!ย
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image credit: fairycake fair, tokyo station, japantimes.com
I didn't have my glasses on.... 
Something Chinese from Ivor, my winning Haiku, from a ‘Vita Brevis’ Haiku Competition 2 years…
https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2018/11/02/zither/
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it was beautiful!
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Ahh then Brian from Vita Brevis Magazine is a good judge ..
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that he is
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I also agree with you
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๐๐Thank you for your kind words
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Welcome
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ha! i don’t think i actually knew that oxen indicated plural. i just thought it was the full name which people then shortened to ox. Like Aussies call kangaroos roos. So thank you. I learned something. And Happy Chinese New Year to you. Being in China for the festival was very exciting and rather noisy (lots of fireworks).
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wow, I can imagine! and I see your logic with the ox plural, English sometimes makes no sense )
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Happy year of the White Metal Ox to you Beth! And a group of oxen is called a herd, but a group of foxen is called a “skulk”, a “leash”, or an “earth”. Just FYI! ๐๐ฆ
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yay! thanks, I love this stuff as you know )
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Oh what great group nouns!
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Old Radio Joke:
“I’m still writing Rat on my checks…..”
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yes, the Chinese restaurant we normally go to was packed to the rafters with revellers; it is good to see people so happy ๐
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Hopefully the world will see a really spring and change as well!
Cheers:)
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I sure hope so too
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Love the foxen!
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here’s to them!
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Yup!
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Cheers to the year of the oxen, Beth!
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here’s to the oxen!
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I love this holiday! Always ready to Bring in the New Year–fresh start– over and over!
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right!
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I am an Ox, yay, Happy Ox year!
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The year of the rat is over. How apropos. ๐
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sometimes things just fall into place –
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I’m no ox, but I’ve heard 44 jack asses braying in the Senate hallways.๐ด๐ด Sorry, Beth. Sometimes I can’t help myself. -:)
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hahahahaha
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one cactus, two cacti; one Prius, two Prii?
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perfect
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I’m ready to celebrate anything that has to do with spring. Unfortunately, spring for IL and Michigan is still a long way off.
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but it helps to warm my heart to think of it
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Happy Chinese New Year! And hopefully, Spring is right around the corner!
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oh, I hope so too
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Fingers crossed!!
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Love this!
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thanks!
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Love the foxen. But at 1 degree right now, spring isn’t even on the horizon.
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our view of the horizon is frozen
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Yes, if English were only a bit more consistent, then the plural of fox might be foxen. By coincidence, the German language has plural noun (with no singular form) that sounds like foxen but is spelled Faxen. It means โfacesโ in the sense of making faces, so โmach keine Faxenโ can mean โstop making facesโ, but is also used to mean โdonโt do anything stupid.โ
This also has to do with oxen, because in the opera โDer Rosenkavalierโ by Richard Strauss there is a character called Baron von Ochs (= Ox) who in the third act makes a clumsy attempt to seduce a person he thinks is a girl called Mariandl (little does he know). When โsheโ tells him she doesnโt drink wine, he says, or rather sings: โMach keine Faxen.โ โ The melody of this immediately started going through my head as soon as I read your post about oxen and foxen, but it took me a while to remember which opera it was from.
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that’s so interesting –
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I bet these little cakes are delicious! I hope that in this year of the Ox we can make strong steady progress towards pushing back the threat of the Covid-19 coronavirus from all nations.
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aren’t they so cute? I hope so too
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anything that celebrates the coming of Spring is a good thing!
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I could not agree more
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Let’s start a new word! My, what beautiful foxens I see, down yonder.
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I will check it out after I load my boxens into my car.
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Happy New Year, Beth!
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And to you
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That’s ox-some! (*๏ผพโฝ๏ผพ)๏ผ
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hahahaha
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Cute cakes. Have a wonderful year.
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Arenโt they though? Thanks!
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Happy New Year! I watched a video of one family preparing, it was beautiful!
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I love the traditions and celebrations
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Me too!
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Love this!!!
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Being around my birthday I always welcome Chinese New Year… and spring can not come soon enough around here… have a good week Beth.
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right! and happy birthday –
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thanks Beth..xx
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Nice! I love it! โค
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