To think that only posh people say Father Christmas?!

[charliesp]

And everyone else says Santa?

I say Santa but my posh DH and all his family and posh friends say Father Christmas.

Anyone else noticed this? Or AIBU?

I’m working class and say Father Christmas. To me Santa sounds American.

This is the hill I'll die on. It's Father Christmas. I'm not posh, not southern English. Read Raymond Briggs for further details.

www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/origin-of-santa/father-christmas

Also I'm posh Scottish and we all say Santa Claus so the Santa Claus snobbery can jog on! Next we'll have people saying 'ize' endings are a dreadful Americanisation

This thread is doing more for the dissolution of the union than bloody Brexit.

As a No voter in 2014, I agree!

YABU

I'm certainly not posh, from Croydon, but I say Father Christmas. Much nicer than Santa Claus.

*I feckn hate this place sometimes. RTFT for the love of Santa Claus please!

Irish and Scottish people use Santa/Santy/Santa Claus. We didn’t adopt it from America. They took it from us grin
If you said Father Christmas in Dublin you’d get a funny look.

Same as Halloween, it’s always been a big deal in Ireland. We didn’t adopt this from America either!

Most of us say Haitch and not aitch too*

So much this!

Claymores are rattling up here in South Lanarkshire. The clans are rising!!!

I've noticed that FC devotees sometimes have a horror of Santa, but the same doesn't seem to apply vice versa.

I was raised with FC but say Santa because I can't stand the superiority/snobbery that sometimes goes along with saying FC.

I say both.

I don’t think Santa Claus is American... surely it’s a contraction of Saint Nicholas?

Nope. I say both. I prefer Father Christmas.

I’m posh. He’s ‘Father Christmas’ here.

SANTA ISN’T AMERICAN

ffs

Of course Santa Claus isn't (originally) American (cf. Sinterklaas), but that's what a lot of objectors presume about it. I think it shows up a fair bit of English anti-American, anti-Irish and class prejudice.

For me he's always been Father Christmas. Not posh.

Most of us say Haitch and not aitch too

Oh now you're really opening a can of worms Pedro.

Just did my usual occasional search for "having a paddy" and found a thread where it had already been edited and the OP had apologised. Heartwarming!

Let's start a new thing, clearly no one can agree.

We could start calling him THE MAGIC RED DAD.

Apparently Coca Cola advertising from the 1920’s is responsible for the white-bearded, red-suited, plump, cherry-cheeked image of Santa. This in turn was based on the poem “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” from the 1800’s.

Before this St Nick was skinny and stern and visited on Dec 6 which still happens in places like Germany & the Netherlands.

Thank you Google!

Well I'm born northern English, genetically northern English and Irish, bred southern English and I use both! So not sure what that says about me.

Santa takes less time to type, I probably say Father Christmas when I am talking.

I’m not “posh” but I say Father Christmas as that’s what I’ve always known him as ,always thought Santa was an American thing

I'm in Northumberland and it's always been Santa/Santy here.