You live and (to ) learnI thought it was an American bastardisation.
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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).
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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.
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