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For the love of St. Patrick, is it St. Patty's Day or St. Paddy's Day?

or are both right?

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  • Gold-head_small
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    It's pronounced "Amateur Night".

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  • Enso_circle_small
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    According to a friend who is "Irish-ish" and who lived in Dublin for 18 months, it is St Paddy. Men get shortened to Paddy (b/c of Padraig) women get shortened to Patty.

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    Paddy is a male nickname.

    My brother Patrick and I are named after our grandfather, who was known as Paddy, short for Padraig. If that were not enough, his second wife was Patricia, nicknamed Patty.

    Oh, the Irish. If you're not named for Mary or Joseph, you are a Patrick or Patricia.

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    From my all too brief stay in Ireland, just about every old man in a pub is named Paddy...

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    Without question, Paddy (short for Patrick). Use of the phrase 'St Patty' is about on par with putting green coloring in one's beer: no self respecting Irish person would ever do it. St Patty, if there ever was one, would most likely be the patron saint of the circular pieces of meat commonly found topped with special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. Or at least that's what always comes to my mind every time I see that spelling of it.

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