Cringe at "Crimbo"

[UnquietDad]

Please sign in here if you do. I think people who use it should be shot.

It makes me think of Mr Blobby-era Noel Edmonds.

i just don't get it. is it some weird london thing?

Hate it, though I have been known to lazily use 'xmas'......

Xmas is surely fine as a written abbreviation provided you don't actually say it.

There are about 50 groups on Facebook alone with the word "Crimbo" in the title. I was looking for a Crimbo-haters group... didn't find one...

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One wonders why they don't refer to Easter as "Eebie" or Whitsun as "Whitters".

Why would it be a London thing?

I remember the Scally's saying Chrimbo when I lived up there

I dislike it. Because I am Fimbo people say my Christmas name should be Crimbo - never in a million years!

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Makes me think of the cheery radio 1 DJs with their "amusing" breakfast chatter. I want to smash the radio with a sledgehammer when I hear them.

i dunno why is would be a london thing. i'm not british. i had never heard of it before taht avid merrion song.
just assumed it another of those rhyming slang things that i don't get.
(and anyway, isn't everything from London?)

My name is Swedes and I have been known to say Crimbo.

I'm wondering what to get my hubby and the kiddies for Crimbo.

S'ok.

So long as you never say it again.

I hate it too.

AM pmsl at the example of Whitsun. Haven't heard that since my uni days. Who the hell uses that apart from priests?

Dreadful. Hate 'Xmas' too.

Nasty.
I also hate Xmas, tis Christmas. That is all.

and 'tis'

Isn't Xmas is a proper abbreviation for Christmas though?

Tis is Christmassy.

Xmas = cross-mas.

'tis crimbo, what's wrong with you peeps. 'lil crimbo spirit wouldn't go amiss.

The best phrase of all:-

"Merry Crimbo, hun"

Agree - Chrimbo is awful.

Don't mind Xmas (if written), though, because it is 'correct' (if you like). The X stands for the letter 'chi' in the ancient Greek alphabet (the language of the New Testament), which is the first letter of Christ/Christmas. You see it a lot on early Christian art, especially as XP (or chi rho).

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