Father Christmas vs Santa Claus

[squeaver]

Me and dh are both Scottish, but now we live in London.

We ONLY ever refer to the big fat red one as Santa, as do all our families.

Dd's friends and their families seem to only ever call him Father Christmas.

Now she thinks there's 2 of them, both bringing her presents.

Is this a Scottish/English thing? Just curious.

I'm Scottish and would always use Santa.

I'm English and would say Father Christmas.

Isn't Santa Claus American?

Honestly I never heard anyone say it until I moved down here (although I obviously used to read about it in Enid Blyton etc )

why not just say that its another name for santa? like you are called mummy t her but squeaver to your friends?

I'm NW England and he's Father Christmas here

It makes me cringe when the kids call him Santa ...

Oh I have MOM, but her rank materialism is acting as a barrier. So she's going to ask Santa for Polly Pocket and FC for Barbie's hot tub or whatever tat turns her head on Nick Jr that day.

I was brought up with SAnta _scottish
dh father xmas

ds and dd-either but ds calls him Farmer xmas mostly

Ahh - My DS used to say Farmer christmas too!!

We call him FC but my husband sometimes talks about Santa. He's a Scot. Strange lot.

I'm English and call him FC. I always though Santa was American!

I've always called him Santa. Well actually SANTY! (Irish, see)
DH and his Northern English lot call him FC.
The DC's are confused. I can't change. He can't change. Why should we...
It's only for a few years anyway...

we always used to say father christmas but dc say santa so santa it is.

Father Christmas - I'm English

i've always had FC in England and Santa in scotland too

I'm English, and we have Santa. Originally we had Father Christmas, but after spending one entire festive season trying to work out why DS was talking about farms we realised that Santa is easier to say when you're 2.

We're English and say Father Christmas (I thought Santa was American too).

Imagine DD;s confusion though: last year we lived in Germany, so Nikolaus came with presents on 5th Dec (she was only 2 then so we didn't even mention FC to her or bother with a stocking).
Now we live in Holland, so Sinterklaas will bring presents on the 5th Dec AND Father Christmas will come at Christmas. She still talks about Nikolaus, but I just tell her that the name changes in each language but the person is the same.

We call him Father Christmas. DD had no problem when she was younger, she could say Father. Sadly, she couldn't say Christmas though, so rather unfortunately, he was Father Pissmas!

me Father Christmas
DG- Santa, I have tried to educate him as he is English MIL is part German though?

Me: Father Christmas (English)
DH: Santa (Scottish)

DD: Farmer Christmas, too

Me: Santa/Santie (from Irish mother)
DH: Father Christmas (all English)
DD: uses both but has never thought to demand double presents.

Father Christmas - I'm welsh

Me - Father Christmas
DH - Father Christmas
DD - Santa

Dh and I were born and grew up in England.
Dd was born and is growing up in Scotland.

YAY!!
i'm canadian and don't get this whole 'father christmas' malarky! HE's santa clause dammit!!
BUT i live in scotland so it's ok. i'll just have to ignore all the english television!!

I'm English, DH is Welsh and we always say Father Christmas - I too thought it was an American invention.

I was very p'd off last year because DD wanted one of those 'Santa Stop Here' signs for the garden but I couldn't find one that said Father Christmas anywhere