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Is abbreviating Christmas as xmas disrespectful?

Anonymous

∙ 10y ago

Updated: 11/14/2022

It is disrespectful only if you mispronounce it Eksmas. In the abbreviation Xmas (pronounced "Christmas"), the X- is not the Roman letter x. It is the Greek letter chi, which is long-established as a proper abbreviation for Christ.

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