It's not New Years!

May I say on this Forum to all Gransnetters.
Wishing you all a Very, Very Happy New Year.
May it bring you health and happiness, oh yes, and perhaps a nice lottery win for you too.??.

This really belongs in the pendant section FFS.
It's from a song that is a classic from 1947 written by Frank Loesser and recorded by dozens of well known artists ever since. The phrasing fits the lyrical structure.

Now lighten up and have some

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Are_You_Doing_New_Year's_Eve%3F

Maybe it's much too early in the game
Ah but I thought I'd ask you just the same
What are you doing New Year's
New Year's eve?

Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight
When it's exactly twelve o'clock that night
Welcoming in the New Year
New Year's eve

Maybe I'm crazy to suppose
I'd ever be the one you chose
Out of a thousand invitations
You received

Ah but in case I stand one little chance
Here comes the jackpot question in advance
What are you doing New Year's
New Year's eve?

Maybe I'm crazy to suppose
I'd ever be the one you chose
Out of a thousand invitations
You received

Ah but in case I stand one little chance
Here comes the jackpot question in advance
What are you doing New Year's
New Year's eve?

Aye Daphne yis is richt.

In my youth I would go first footing with my friends, nowadays I go to bed early with a book and hope that the fireworks do not keep me a wake. I have a feeling that is called old age.

Hate "New Years" it's just lazy.

Never heard of New Years and no there were no fireworks when we grew up, in fact I dont recall any at New Year until when I left the UK in 1968 they were just on bonfire night 5th November.

Pedantry lives!!

All my American relations say New Years.

I've never heard New Years either.

I rather like fireworks being let off to celebrate the arrival of the New Year even though the dogs are not keen. It's a much better use of them than Guy Fawkes night which now seems to last for a fortnight.

Granny23 appreciate your comment about postings getting crossed. Oddly I thought I had better do some checking, too, and it does seem that in some circles "Hogmany" is acceptable but, whatever, celebrate well!.

I love the regional variations in language we have,my friend posts only in Doric ,its brilliant ,but it can take a wee while to understand ,Yous is perfectly understandable .Anyone remember Stanley Baxters parliamo Glasgow?

Och aye the Noo! (Year)

If youse disnae like the way we speak in Scoatland, youse disnae need tae listen.

Never heard it used like that. Quite strange. Perhaps on a par with 'Crimbo' ! Shudder!

Some Scots say yous as well. Regional variations in speech are not something to get in a srptew about.

Just seen how I spelt stew. I think the version up there is better for the purposes of this post

Never heard New Years without the apostrophe and Eve. Oh but I have heard yous as the plural of you in the NE and youse in scouse land. How I hate it.

Have never heard anyone say New Years, it's always ' are you doing anything at/for New Year?'

And what's more, they pronounce it 'Noo'....

Oh blast! I just lost a post.

In terms of numbers of people who say Years rather than Year in the phrase Happy New Year(s), we Brits are on the losing side.

I do think it's unreasonable, since you asked, to complain about such transAtlantic differences coming over here and being adopted.

There's another difference too: I think Americans tend to stress the word New whereas Brits tend to stress the word Year. Oh the shock and horror! Not. ??

As well as "Hogmanay I remember 31 December being referred to as "Auld Year's Nicht " (old year's night) and also in my childhood, people used to send New Year's Day cards -useful if you had missed someone out at Christmas, but a bit of a giveaway.

What is being celebrated is the New Year, and that starts at midnight. New Years is short for New Year's Eve - the evening of the last day before the New Year. The parties get started in the evening, but the whole point is to welcome in the beginning of 2017, not to make a big thing of the previous day.

fireworks are a new addition to New Year celebrations,in the "olden days" well the fifties and sixties when I was young we still stuck with tradition and it was mainly house parties and first footing.A first foot should always come with the essentials of life...salt (for wealth) coal(for heat) whisky ( self explanatory) and cake or shortbread ( for food) I have a little bag that has my salt and coal in it ,its the same salt and coal my late dad carried over our doorstep the first New Year we were married in 1975,It still goes first footing but it always comes home .A very Happy,Healthy and Prosperous 2017 to you all

Crossed posts Rob Yours had not appeared when I hit post, so I was not criticising your spelling - which is correct, unlike mine just trying to emphasise the proper name for the day.

And that's another thing! I'm sure that people didn't used to have fireworks at New Year celebrations when I was young.

What ever it is I shall be partying- have fun everyone!

This New Years Eve (the eve of a new year) the same as every other, I will be staying in, as my Pooch is terrified of fireworks!