You know I'm pretty informed about Halloween right? So I know all sorts of useless stuff like: Samhain is the Gaelic word for Halloween. But the problem is I've been pronouncing it wrong. In fact I've been pronouncing it wrong for a very very long time. Apparently whoever was teaching Gaelic didn't understand the first rule of American English - We're lazy and we don't care about the difference between how something is written and how it sounds. Anyway, Samhain actually sounds like Solwin. You write it Samhain, but it's pronounced Solwin. Now I've stared at the word Samhain for some time. I've even read a little bit about Gaelic grammar, but nothing explains why it's pronounced Solwin. I don't even think the Gaelic translator knew what he was doing, I think he was just drunk like every other Irishman, and then made up the grammar after to cover for his mistake.