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The 40-day dare to find out which habits actually had a grip on you.
means A period of fasting and penitence in the Christian calendar, stretching from Ash Wednesday to Easter, traditionally marked by giving something up.
from From Old English 'lencten,' meaning 'spring' — the same root that gives us 'lengthen,' because this was the season when daylight hours stretched out. The word originally just meant springtime itself; it narrowed to mean this specific fasting season only because that's when it fell. Its cousins in other Germanic languages still mean 'spring' plain and simple — English is the odd one out that let the season's name get swallowed by the religious observance held during it.
- origin
- name just means spring, from old english lengten
- math
- sundays dont count, so its secretly 46 days
- tradition
- pancakes exist to use up eggs and butter first
- ends
- concludes at sundown on holy saturday, not easter morning