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Xmas ( pronounced krissmuss ) is an abbreviation of the word "Christmas."
X-mas is an abbreviation of Christmas. Christmas was not a big holiday in colonial times.
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.
Xmas is the abbreviation of Christmas.
It comes from Greek alphabet. In Greek name Christ starts with letters XP (Chi and Rho), and so Xmas is an abbreviation for Christmas. Why only X? Maybe it looks better..
The 'X' comes from Roman times when 'X' meant 'Christ', so as an abbreviation, they said 'X-Mas'.
it is an abbreviation for Christmas 'aka Xmas'
Yes, Xmas is another way of writing Christmas.The use of Xmas goes back centuries. X has been used in religious writings as a shorthand or abbreviation, where X represents chi in the Greek alphabet. Chi is the first letter in the Greek spelling of the word Christ.
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cause it might resemble someone pucking up. :x