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Subject: Re: the X in X-mas
Author: Jordan   (guest, 138.237.186.197)
Date: December 3, 2003 at 11:36:28 AM
Reply to: the X in X-mas by Morgain
I got this off of Wikipedia:

The word "Christmas" is often abbreviated to "Xmas", the "X" being an uppercase Greek letter chi, which is the first letter of "Christos" in Greek. The abbreviation is widely but not universally accepted; some view it as demeaning to the name of Christ.

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