Oh hey, I have to post today.
Post.
Here's my gripe for the day.
Ignorance.
All you have to do is look it up on Wikipedia, you don't have to go to a university (which is where I learned this), you can find it very easily online...So...do your homework before you bitch about it.
"Xmas" is a common abbreviation of the word "Christmas". It is sometimes pronounced /ˈɛksməs/, but it, and variants such as "Xtemass", originated as handwriting abbreviations for the typical pronunciation, /ˈkrɪsməs/. The "-mas" part is from the Latin-derived Old English word for "mass", while the "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός, translated as "Christ".
Get your facts straight.
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