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X-MAS is how my father used to write “Xmas” on my present when I was a kid, living in a trailer park. So soooorry if that’s how I prefer to write it to honor my childhood.
The X in X-mas is from the Greekletter Chi, which is the first letter of Χριστός, Christ in Greek.
I’d always been told it was a ‘criss-cross’ rather than an X, hence ‘criss-mas’. The philologist in me likes this explanation better though.
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I want to tack on that Christina Aguilera’s nickname should NOT have been “Xtina” but rather “Xina”. The X = Christ....
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Lady boner for Maya! I am so glad you are our wife ;)
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I’d always been told it was a ‘criss-cross’ rather than an X, hence ‘criss-mas’. The philologist in me likes this...
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from the Greekletter Chi, which is the first letter of Χριστός, Christ
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