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Say the word \"Halloween\" out loud and you'd never guess it started as a solemn church term. But hidden inside those three syllables is an old evening, a feast for saints, and a whole lot of shortcutting. Once you learn how the word was built, you can't unhear it.  \nThat building process begins with a day you might never have heard of: All Saints' Day, celebrated on November 1. In the Christian calendar, this feast honors all the saints, and an older name for a holy person or saint was a \"hallow. \" So All Saints' Day was also called All Hallows' Day, meaning something like \"the day of all holy ones. \" If \"hallow\" sounds familiar, it's because you already say it in the Lord's Prayer, in the line\"hallowed be thy name. \"  \nNaming the day was only half the job, because the evening before it mattered too. In old traditions, many important feasts had a special eve, the night before, when celebrations already began. The evening before All Hallows' Day was therefore called All Hallows' Even, since \"even\" was simply an older word for\"evening. \" Picture that phrase said quickly, over and over, for centuries, and you can hear it starting to wear down at the edges.  \nThat wearing-down is exactly how \"All Hallows' Even\" became the word you shout every October 31. English speakers, especially in Scotland, trimmed \"Even\" to \"e'en,\" a contraction where the apostrophe stands in for the missing letters. Squeeze \"Hallows' e'en\" together and you get \"Hallowe'en,\" apostrophe and all, which is how the word was often spelled for along time. Over the years most people dropped that apostrophe too, leaving the plain\"Halloween\" we use now. In just a few centuries, a four-word phrase had shrunk to a single snappy word.  \nA Scottish poet helped push that snappy word out into the wider world. In 1786, Robert  \nBurns published a long poem simply titled \"Halloween,\" describing the customs and games country folk enjoyed on that night. Burns even added notes explaining the traditions, because he figured many readers wouldn't understand the old rural practices. His poem is one of the reasons the word and its festivities spread beyond Scotland, carried in books people actually read for fun.  \nFrom Burns's pages, the word traveled across oceans with immigrants and settled into the English we speak today. It's worth remembering that other cultures hold their own autumn observances, like Mexico's Day of the Dead and the Christian All Souls' Day on November 2, each with its own meaning and history. Halloween's name, though, traces straight back to that quiet evening honoring the saints. So the next time someone hands you candy on October 31, remember you're really standing on the eve of a feast day, whispering a thousand-year-old phrase without even knowing it.  \nAll Hallows' Eve: How Halloween Got Its Name Name:  \n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) Which two central ideas does the article develop over its length?\u003Cbr>A. How saints were chosen by the church, and how poems were printed in the 1700s\u003Cbr>B. How the word \"Halloween\" formed from a religious phrase, and how it spread to the wider world\u003Cbr>C. How the Lord's Prayer was written, and how Scotland celebrated autumn feasts\u003Cbr>D. How candy became popular on Halloween, and why costumes are worn on October 31 |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.  \u003Cbr>4.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) What point does the author make about other autumn observances?\u003Cbr>A. They all developed directly from the same religious phrase\u003Cbr>B. They are simply different regional names for Halloween itself\u003Cbr>C. They each have their own meaning and history separate from Halloween\u003Cbr>D. 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