From last year, let me state my pet peeve:
It's rude not to spell it out! Why do people insist on shortening Christmas with an X then adding "mas." I don't even want to spell it out for this blog entry - that how uncouth I think it is!
Christmas is ABOUT Christ. CHRIST should not be removed from Christmas!!
Oh, and, Happy Holidays!!! :)
3 comments:
I feel the same way. My mother tells everyone she sees that writes it with an X about taking out Christ. And you'd be surprised how many people tell her they didn't realize it was meant like that, or that it is offensive. I think people see other people do it, so they do the same without even realizing it. Oh well, maybe one day people will realize.
Here's a little insight:
This 1922 Ladies' Home Journal advertisement uses "Xmas"."Xmas" is a common abbreviation of the word "Christmas". It is sometimes pronounced /ˈɛksməs/, but it, and variants such as "Xtemass", originated as handwriting abbreviations for the typical pronunciation, /ˈkrɪsməs/. The "-mas" part is from the Latin-derived Old English word for "mass"[1], while the "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός, translated as "Christ".
So therefore, abbreviating it to X-mas is not taking Christ out of it.
It still chaps my hide, even knowing that background! It will still bother me....
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