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I had a lady freak on me for writing "X-mas"... she said "Don't you ever replace the word Christ with an X, it's so disrespectful"...
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Here's what you can tell anyone who says that: (from wikipedia)
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The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as 1021 AD. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ and ρ), used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for "Christ") (see Labarum), and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ.
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It has nothing to do with "taking 'Christ' out of Christmas."