2016 is a leap year – Japanese called ‘Uruu-doshi’ I was wondering why its called ‘leap-year’ in English. According to the wikipedia, The name “leap year” comes from the fact that while a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar normally advances one day of the week from one year to the next, the day of the week in the 12 months following the leap day (from March 1 through February 28 of the following year) will advance two days due to the extra day (thus “leaping over” one of the days in the week). For example, Christmas fell on Tuesday in 2001, Wednesday in 2002, and Thursday in 2003 but then “leapt” over Friday to fall on a Saturday in 2004.
We called Uruu-doshi, Uruu means extra (but we don’t use this word anymore, it is very old style to say) and doshi means year, It is simply ‘Extra-year’
Please enjoy one extra day of this year!
