Christmas or Xmas?
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- shoz
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Christmas or Xmas?
Which do your prefer? I personally HATE Xmas and never ever use the word.
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- Richard Ruck
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May I refer the honourable gentleman to last year's discussion about this very subject, started by....Shoz?
viewtopic.php?t=942&highlight=xmas
viewtopic.php?t=942&highlight=xmas
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Thee's got'n where thee cassn't back'n, hassn't?
Thee's got'n where thee cassn't back'n, hassn't?
- shoz
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My apologies, I had forgotten.Richard Ruck wrote:May I refer the honourable gentleman to last year's discussion about this very subject, started by....Shoz?
viewtopic.php?t=942&highlight=xmas
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Bah HumbugDeb GP wrote:I hate Winterval more.
And people who try to wangle discounts because "It's Christmas" when actually it's still Advent
and stupid perfume adverts on the telly
and people who put up decorations on 28th November
and silly baby outfits with reindeer antlers
and that bl**dy Ocado advert on Classic FM.
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- Richard Ruck
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No apology needed! There are many things for us to get grumpy about at Christmas and 'Xmas' is one of them.shoz wrote:My apologies, I had forgotten.Richard Ruck wrote:May I refer the honourable gentleman to last year's discussion about this very subject, started by....Shoz?
viewtopic.php?t=942&highlight=xmas
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Thee's got'n where thee cassn't back'n, hassn't?
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Deb GP wrote:Oh Plum... didn't you know that Gabriel appeared to Tigger and the heffalump in the Hundred Acre wood to warn him not to eat the wise men as they passed through on their way from the Orient.
Maybe it took them so long because they were looking for the woozle!
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In my book Xmas means Kiss-mas (which is not necessarily a bad thing!). I am now starting to ignore what everyone else is doing and just carrying on with my own little thing. The mothers at our pre-school and toddler groups are getting agitated because they can't remember all the names of the children in the class for their Chrissy (hee hee) cards. At 3 years of age???????????????????????? Do me a favour folks and get a grip. The look of abject horror when I said that I didn't know and, frankly, didn't care because Cora is only 3 and we don't do cards was highly amusing. And hugely liberating.
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Thanks DBTS although i had to look that one up had no idea what that meant!):DavebytheSea wrote:I think you are a wise, if somewhat etymologically challenged, girlblondie95 wrote:I dont like Xmas but will use it when posting messages etc as takes too long and too challenging on my spelling to get Christmas right