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Another American holiday coming up with an equally useless name is Fourth of July. Nobody seems to have a problem with that name, and nobody I know calls it Independence Day. Neither Fourth of July or Juneteenth are great names out of context, but they both have histories behind them and can't be changed anymore.

Heck, Juneteenth is a better name, since it is not literally month+day.

The name of the holiday, so named by the people affected, is a century and change old. The problem isn't the quality of the name, which is where we started.

Wait until you hear about September through December not being the 7th through 10th months of the year.

They don’t even give you a sense for _when_ they are. Or, more accurately, they give you the _wrong_ sense for when they are by name alone.

Wait until you hear about Cinco De Mayo!