WIBU to ask that people spell Hallowe'en properly?

[FreshBloodandGutsLeticia]

Please?

Or maybe the apostrophe is marking the place of the missing letter as with other contractions... dunno.

Pfft! Language evolves OP. Have a and relax.

What?

I'm afraid you would BU. Far too much effort!

Worra ex-bloody-actly!!

I thought Xmas was for non-Christians wanting to celebrate but miss the religious bit out?

Oh and lazy gits like me who prefer Xmas when texting as it hurts my fingers to type out Christ over and over again

Samhain, OP. It's the only way.

I have to laugh at the irony of the 'WIBU' in the thread title

Dunno about Christmas, but I was reading a manuscript today written in about 1407, that repeatedly refers to xptians or xians instead of Christians.

I agree the ship has sailed on the apostrophe in Hallowe'en (and isn't that punctuation, not spelling? Or diplomatics?)

Next you'll be asking people to stop saying 'trickle treat'

No, there's a long history of Xmas being Xmas

Ooh, horrible sentence.

Xmas makes me grind my teeth though!

I see it and I say exmas.

I need a lie down now...

Pmsl i didnt even know it was spelt like that!! Oops back to spell check for me

The x stands for Christ in old Greek, or something. Not stands for, 'is'.

Does anyone actually call it All Hallows Eve without receiving a well deserved punch in the face

Just looked up halloween (sorry OP) on wiki, apparently it 'initiates the triduum of hallowmas', nothing pretentious about that at all

I can't see where someone said it did stand for 'is'.

X is the first letter of Christ's name in Greek, like mad says.

Ohh, I quite want to ponce around talking about initiating the triduum of hallowmas now.

Yes, Worra, I know. I should have known better .

Yes, MadAsFish, that's what many people said at the time. Doesn't make it any less annoying though. Christmas is still the full version of the word (and therefore the only correct one to me). I am apparently unusual in this feeling .

I will not start the same thread this year!

Haha, I knew this would get you lot going and was only pondering how we had managed to get to this late hour on All Souls' Eve without a thread of this ilk.

Ooooh, you are eeeeevil!

Very appropriate

Yan'bu.

Apropos of nothing, I was actually thinking about the chi-rho symbol, which looks like an x with a p through it, which is an old Greek symbol for Christ.