Searching for my people, I guess.
My partner hates it when I say that Die Hard is my favourite X-mas movie. Or, that I only want socks, underwear, and egg nog. She’s lactose intolerant. Maybe I’m just X-mas intolerant.
Anyway, have at ye scallywags! Vent your frustrations! Build me an anti-X-mas list! I’m already celebrating New Year’s over here.
Calling it X-mas has to be pretty high up there.
It’s been spelled like that for centuries. It comes from the Greek letter Chi, the first letter of the word Christós. The first English document (that we know of) using it is from around 1100 CE.
Do you feel like that lessens their annoyance about it?
It does mine! That’s super cool! But I wasn’t bothered to begin with.
Most people are annoyed by it because they think it’s a lazy modern spelling.
Who, the X-ians?
Why do you feel like they’re a ✝️-tian
No, I was checking whether you thought it was the ✝️-ians who were annoyed. Like, who the “their” was in your question:
Or
Or
“They” was just the person who originally said they were annoyed by it, NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
I laughed pretty hard when Christina Aguilara started calling herself Xtina
In Age of Empires community I was wondering what the xbows were but it was a shorthand for crossbows.
You just helped a mildly infuriating puzzle piece finally slide into place for me. For years, I’ve internalized xbow as shorthand for crossbow, but couldn’t for the life of me remember where I’d have picked that up. I played a lot of AoE2 back in the day, though, so that seems the likely origin.