When did Christmas become Xmas?

Tubadork · Post by **Tubadork** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:43 pm

Hi
Just wondering when and how Xmas became shorthand for Christmas?
Bill

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 4:07 pm

bloke wrote: http://www.cresourcei.org/symbols/xmasorigin.html

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Nuts, Joe beat me to it.

I always figured it started with the Looney Tunes cartoons (always getting the package marked "Do not open 'til X-mas"). My guess was that the animators couldn't write small enough to clearly put the whole word on the tag, so they shortened it, and then luckily noticed the relationship to the original Greek.

Doug "who notes that more often it's become Chri$tma$"