Major ChrisB wrote:
> "Nancy1" <nancy-dooley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> >
> > Dave Rangell wrote:
> >
> > > You'll see a Jew write 'Xian', or 'Xmas', but not 'Christian' or
> > > 'Christmas', unless they can work it into an insult.
> > >
> > > Not that you are necessarily a Jew, sad to say.
> >
> > You are a little mixed up. If you would bother to do some research,
> > you would find that the form "Xmas," particularly, is a
> > Christian-sanctioned form of the word from Biblical times.
>
> Catholic School educated and was always told that Xmas was something to
save
> money by advertising firms and was "taking Christ out of Christmas"
Well, your Catholic School nuns and/or teachers need to learn what
they're talking about. They are wrong, wrong, wrong.
N.
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