Honey Month

The things you learn in a World Religions online course:

"It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month -- what we know today as the honeymoon."

1. My dad is not going on my honeymoon with me.
2. It's cool if my honeymoon is a month long, but my figurative honeymoon period better not be so short.
3. Do you have to get married to have a honeymoon? ... i mean, what about the spinsters? and the life-long bachelors? Oh, that's right, at that point that's called vacation or at best a romantic getaway.
3a. I'll take the mead instead.


"Honeymoon" in different languages (from Wikipedia):

French-lune de miel (honeymoon)
Welsh-mis mêl (honey month)
Arabic-shahr el 'assal (honey month)
Spanish-la luna de miel (the moon of honey)
Italian-luna di miele (the moon of honey)
Persian-mah e asal (honeymoon and honey month-mah in Persian means both moon and month).

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