Saint Catherine’s Day : une date qui coïncide avec le jour de la Sainte Catherine

Question

The linked article on saints’ days gives "la Sainte-Catherine" as an alternative to "le jour de la Sainte Catherine’ but it’s marked wrong in the exercise.

Also wanted to say I appreciate Maarten’s discourse on "washerwoman" - to my British ears it’s distinctly perjorative and laundress is more neutral.

Céline Pickard · Accepted Answer

Bonjour à tous,
Thank you for all your comments! After discussing this topic with the rest of the team, we deciced to remove it and change it to "laundrywoman". 
Merci à tous de votre participation !
Bonne journée !

Céline Pickard · Answer

Bonjour Anne,
Thank you for your message! This has now been added as an option in the exercise. I will discuss "correspondre à" with my colleague.
EDIT: Thank you for your comment! The option "correspondre à" is indeed correct and has been added to the others. We've slo removed "correspondre avec" as you're right that it measn "to write to [somenone]".
Merci de votre participation !
Bonne journée !

Maarten Kamp · Answer

Anne,

thank you for the comment.

I was surprised by the etymology as I indicated ! I note however that neither the exercise, nor the incorrectly assigned ‘ correct answer’ have been changed.

Perhaps Céline could have another look at it ?

Also, Céline, can you explain why you have used ‘ correspondre avec ‘ rather than ‘ correspondre à ‘ as a correct alternative to ‘ coïncider avec ‘ in the last phrase of the exercise ?

https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9C4347

Anne Davies · Answer

Sorry Céline, can you respond to my original question about St Catherine’s day?

Viz: The linked article on saints’ days gives "la Sainte-Catherine" as an alternative to "le jour de la Sainte Catherine’ but it’s marked wrong in the exercise.