I call it Mischief Night. What do you call it, if anything?
While thinking about it, I found this article which surprised me:
It's a Jersey thing: N.J. may be the only state to call tonight 'mischief night'
New Jerseyans are part of a small percentage of Americans that call the night before Halloween “mischief night,” a study shows.
Joshua Katz, a PhD student in statistics at North Carolina State University, created a map based on a Harvard Dialect Survey about how Americans speak.
While the study, led by Prof. Bert Vaux, found that most Americans don’t have a special name for tonight, most people in New Jersey call it “Mischief Night.” Michigan residents, in fact, are the only other ones to have a name for Halloween eve, “Devils Night.”
"Mischief Night" is just that: A night, typically, young unsupervised juveniles go around engaging in mischievous behavior such as throwing eggs at homes and wrapping trees in toilet paper. Some New Jersey towns enforce a zero tolerance policy to cut down on this type of behavior.
Of the 10,640 respondents nationwide, 70.3 percent did not have a special name for tonight. Ten percent referred to it as “Mischief Night,” while another 11 percent labeled it “Devils Night.”
Other names, which all earn less than five percent, include “Gate Night,” “Trick Night,” “Cabbage Night” and “Goosey Night.”
LINK: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/20...nly_state_to_call_tonight_mischief_night.html
While thinking about it, I found this article which surprised me:
It's a Jersey thing: N.J. may be the only state to call tonight 'mischief night'
New Jerseyans are part of a small percentage of Americans that call the night before Halloween “mischief night,” a study shows.
Joshua Katz, a PhD student in statistics at North Carolina State University, created a map based on a Harvard Dialect Survey about how Americans speak.
While the study, led by Prof. Bert Vaux, found that most Americans don’t have a special name for tonight, most people in New Jersey call it “Mischief Night.” Michigan residents, in fact, are the only other ones to have a name for Halloween eve, “Devils Night.”
"Mischief Night" is just that: A night, typically, young unsupervised juveniles go around engaging in mischievous behavior such as throwing eggs at homes and wrapping trees in toilet paper. Some New Jersey towns enforce a zero tolerance policy to cut down on this type of behavior.
Of the 10,640 respondents nationwide, 70.3 percent did not have a special name for tonight. Ten percent referred to it as “Mischief Night,” while another 11 percent labeled it “Devils Night.”
Other names, which all earn less than five percent, include “Gate Night,” “Trick Night,” “Cabbage Night” and “Goosey Night.”
LINK: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/20...nly_state_to_call_tonight_mischief_night.html
