Japan is celebrating its 27th annual Cat Day today, also known as Nyan Nyan Nyan day!
Why Nyan?
In English, we describe the noise cats make as "meow," but in Japanese it's "nyan." (If you've ever seen the "
Nyan cat"
video, that's how it gots its name.) The word in Japanese for the
number two is pronounced "ni," which apparently sounds close enough to
nyan that Feb. 22 (written 22/2 in Japan) could be called nyan nyan
nyan. In other words, today's day sounds kind of like "meow meow meow"
in Japanese.
Other than posting pictures and videos of your feline friend, there's not "much" going on with this day. Surprisingly, now that Valentine is long gone, I heard
Goncharoff had made a special kind of chocolate candy box for that day only.
Is it a mere coincidence they would involve two holidays in one? I think not!