Please stop with the 'Xmas'

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I know I'm pissing in the wind - It's entrenched in the language (apparently as far back as the 11th century), it's a useful shortcut, phones probably even 'correct' to it now but I hate it. We don't try and truncate other festivals' names so why this? It's Christmas, and I hope you all have a lovely one.

Kylie, are you listening?

If you’re a pedant surely you’ll have checked the origin and usage of this abbreviation? ‘We’ (the secular modern world) didn’t invent this, Christians did. I’m sure you know it’s not really an X, it’s a Greek chi, the first letter of Christos. Do you want all those ‘chi-Rho’ symbols removing?

Sorry, imo complaining about “Xmas” makes someone sound ignorant even if they’re not.

Always Xmas here!!!

I'm with you OP, I can't stand it either. I don't like Uni or B'day either.

All I want is Xmas won’t do

I went to a convent school and our nun headteacher told us that the X was crossing out Christ 😄

Come to think of it, late DM was brought up a Baptist and I vaguely remember her saying something like that.

This

Its xmas and Christmas, both legit (now you're going to complain about legit aren't you?)

Perfect 😁 and also very interesting!

Have a great Xmas OP x

I always use Christmas, I hate the X word too.

C-mas.

And X, as we write it, is still in use:
In Catalan (in Barcelona), the 'ch' words start with X, e.g. xarcuterie y xocolate

and naturally, the Greeks are still using it, largely with its original, throat clearing pronunciation, sort of a 'rolled' H, which is why it's sometimes transliterated as H, e.g. Cherssonisos

Even La Aguilera has used it: Xtina.

It's not my preferred spelling of Christmas but its, origin is solid and it is a useful abbreviation.

Same. We had that "it's taking the Christ out of Christmas" nonsense as well. Makes me enjoy using Xmas even more 😄

Christmas has an H in it, Mr Baldrick. And an R, and an I, and an S. Also a T, an M, an A, and another S. Oh, and you've missed out the C at the beginning. Congratulations, something of a triumph. You must be the first person ever to spell "Christmas" without getting any of the letters right at all.

Better start calling it "winterval", to be on the safe side. Happy Holidays! 😤

Im with you OP. It’s awful.

No.

Xmas is a useful word for children's alphabet charts of books, for a word that does actually begin with X, and has the X sound. It's easier for children to spell as well.

Lots of charts use "xylophone", which lacks the X sound, or use a word where X is not the first letter, such as fox, or box. (That used to really annoy me as a child!)

I don’t like “stop with”. Stop is fine without it. Eg Stop saying Xmas.

I’d rather be wished a happy Xmas than a happy Crimbo😬😂

I make a point of saying xylophone - and xenophobia, xantham, xylem, Xander - with the extra click to make sure it's x and not s or z

which probably makes me a pretentious wanker but there you go

Have you ever heard it said aloud? I was wished a ‘happy EX-mas!’ 😂

I thought that the X is what Christianity is all about.

Fair point!

Yes - unless it’s part of your vernacular in which case surely it should be “Stop with the ‘Xmas’ already”.