This counts as reading wednesday, right?

[dhampyresa]

The following two questions have been nagging at me since I thought of them while reading. The book titles of the two books are irrelevant, because these questions aren't related to the point of those books. They're just questions that are bugging me.

1. The book indicates an event as happening during "the Jewish Passover". Is this common in English? The author is from the UK. This prasing mirrors the French "la Pâque juive" but I always thought French people added the adjective when necessary because the French for Easter is "Pâques".

2. Which swim stroke do you consider the most complicated? Not the most tiring or your least favourite, but the most complicated. For reference, the Olympic swimming events are: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle/crawl, but there are other swim strikes. My own answer will be in the comments, so as to not influence people (hopefully).

Comments

[sovay]

"the Jewish Passover". Is this common in English?

I've encountered it, but I think of it as weird and indicating a strong Christian orientation on the part of the author: it is a Jewish holiday and should not need further qualification as such, even with the recent rise in Christian appropriation of Seders.

[dhampyresa]

Thank you.