You do knowthat Xmas is not a modern day attempt to take the 'Christ' out of Christmas?
It's a very old form of the word, coming from the Greek (I think) as their word for Christ begins with an X.
Whatever mistaken reason people use it for now, it was not originally designed as a word for a secular Christmas.
(It's a very old form of the word, coming from the Greek (I think) as their word for Christ begins with an X.
Whatever mistaken reason people use it for now, it was not originally designed as a word for a secular Christmas.
Mystery_Bob,
Tue 12 Dec 2006, 18:30,
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The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as 1021 AD.
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Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts.,
Tue 12 Dec 2006, 18:31,
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No, that's how I usually talk...
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Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts.,
Tue 12 Dec 2006, 18:35,
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You live and (to ) learnI thought it was an American bastardisation.
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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Tue 12 Dec 2006, 18:40,
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Some people believe that the term is part of an effort to "take Christ out of Christmas" or to literally "cross out Christ"; it is also seen as evidence of the secularization of Christmas or a vehicle for pushing political correctness, or as a symptom of the commercialization of the holiday (as the abbreviation has long been used by retailers).
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts.,
Tue 12 Dec 2006, 18:41,
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oh.I truly thought it was simply another effort of the ham shanks to distance themselves as much as possible from Anglo / Saxon / Jutish English so they can finally say they invented it and re-write some more history.
( Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Tue 12 Dec 2006, 18:44,
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